cpu
Apple M5 Ultra
36C/36T
Released
Sep 22, 2026
CPUDesktopReleased Mar 18, 2022
Apple M1 Ultra
20C/20T · 3.2 GHz
The M1 Ultra joins two M1 Max dies with Apple's UltraFusion interconnect, which passes 2.5 TB/s between the dies so that software sees a single chip. Announced in March 2022, it was used only in the first Mac Studio and doubled every resource of the M1 Max, for a total of 114 billion transistors. It was offered with a 48-core or 64-core GPU.
General
- Manufacturer
- Apple
- Model
- Apple M1 Ultra
- Segment
- Desktop
- Generation
- M1 family
- Codename
- —
- Architecture
- ARM64
- Microarchitecture
- Firestorm/Icestorm
- Release date
- Mar 18, 2022
- Price
Cores & clocks
- Cores / threads
- 20 cores / 20 threadsP16+E4
- Base clock
- —
- Boost clock
- 3.23 GHz
- TDP (design W)
- —
- Unlocked
- ✕ No
- L2 cache
- 56 MB
- L3 cache
- —
- Technology (nm)
- 5 nm5 nm
Platform
- Socket
- BGA (soldered SoC)
- 2-CPU (multi-socket)
- ✕ No
- Integrated GPU
- Apple GPU (64-core)
- Memory type
- LPDDR5-6400 (unified)
- Memory size
- 64 – 128 GB
- ECC memory
- —
- PCIe
- —
Instructions & AI
- Instruction extensions
- ARMv8.4-ANEONAMXFP16dotprodAESSHA3PAuth
- NPU
- 32-core Neural Engine — 22 TOPS
OS support
- macOS
- macOS
- Linux
- FedoraArch Linux
- Notes
- macOS 12 (Monterey) and later. Windows runs only inside a virtual machine such as Parallels. Asahi Linux supports the M1 generation, with Fedora Asahi Remix as the reference distribution and Arch Linux ARM also available; Ubuntu and ChromeOS are not supported. Apple does not publish base clocks or TDP figures.
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