With its M2 Ultra chip, the Mac Studio confirms its status as a compact Mac Pro

2023-06-12 20:37:21

Big day for the Mac tomorrow. In addition to the 15-inch MacBook Air and the Mac Pro, Apple is launching the marketing this Tuesday, June 13 of the Mac Studio M2! The first tests of this office machine are out, the manufacturer having provided journalists with high-end M2 Ultra models whose prices start at 4 799 €.

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Unsurprisingly, this Mac Studio looks like two drops of water to its predecessor, with the same ports on the back and on the front (the two ports with USB-C connectors on the front are Thunderbolt 4 on the M2 Ultra models , while the M2 Max are satisfied with a USB 3 at 10 Gbps). Andrew Cunningham of ArsTechnica note that the HDMI port supporting 8K displays at 60Hz must be HDMI 2.1; Apple does not specify this information.

Chez Six ColorsJason Snell explains that the M2 Ultra benefits not only from the more cores compared to the M1 Ultra (20 CPU cores, 48 ​​GPU cores), but also from a faster clock frequency.

Andrew Cunningham had the good idea to compare the M2 Ultra to its direct x86 competitors, namely Intel’s Core i9-13900K and AMD’s Ryzen 9 7950X. On the multi-core tests of Geekbench 5, the Apple chip does better, however it is significantly worse with Cinebench R23. The site’s Handbrake encoding test also shows the M2 Ultra to be a cut below.

That being said, Apple still ensures much better energy efficiency: the Handbrake test shows that the Ryzen 9 consumes twice as much energy as the M2 Ultra to do the same job. And it’s four times more important at Intel by default, for an appreciable gain in speed but not crazy either (+10%).

Six Colors benches.

Pour Devindra Hardawar d’Engadgetthe Mac Studio is “ the purest expression of what the desktop computer is for Apple in 2023 “. It continues to give PCs a hard time when it comes to performing the heaviest tasks. A compact Mac Pro in a way… while the Mac Pro too has moved into the world of Apple chips. On this subject, ArsTechnica wonders about the validity of the Mac Pro range.

But all that is pointless nonsense. Jason Snell notes the one and only information that matters: is the Mac Studio M2 Ultra noisy? The good news is that it is less so than its predecessor: ” I wouldn’t say this Mac Studio M2 is quiet, but it’s definitely quieter than the M1 model, and if you have to keep it on your desk, you probably won’t hear it. “. I buy!

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