cpu
Apple M5 Ultra
36C/36T
Released
Sep 22, 2026
CPUDesktopReleased Jun 13, 2023
Apple M2 Ultra
24C/24T · 3.5 GHz
The M2 Ultra completed Apple's M2 generation and brought Apple silicon to the Mac Pro, finishing the Mac transition away from Intel. Apple builds it by joining two M2 Max dies with its UltraFusion packaging, a silicon interposer that carries more than 10,000 signals at over 2.5 TB/s so that software sees a single chip. The result holds 134 billion transistors and 800 GB/s of memory bandwidth, and it shipped only in the 2023 Mac Studio and Mac Pro.
General
- Manufacturer
- Apple
- Model
- Apple M2 Ultra
- Segment
- Desktop
- Generation
- M2 family
- Codename
- —
- Architecture
- ARM64
- Microarchitecture
- Avalanche/Blizzard
- Release date
- Jun 13, 2023
- Price
Cores & clocks
- Cores / threads
- 24 cores / 24 threadsP16+E8
- Base clock
- —
- Boost clock
- 3.50 GHz
- TDP (design W)
- —
- Unlocked
- ✕ No
- L2 cache
- —
- L3 cache
- —
- Technology (nm)
- 5 nm5 nm
Platform
- Socket
- BGA (soldered SoC)
- 2-CPU (multi-socket)
- ✕ No
- Integrated GPU
- Apple GPU (76-core)
- Memory type
- LPDDR5-6400 (unified)
- Memory size
- 64 – 192 GB
- ECC memory
- —
- PCIe
- —
Instructions & AI
- Instruction extensions
- ARMv8.5-ANEONAMXFP16dotprodAESSHA3PAuth
- NPU
- 32-core Neural Engine — 31.6 TOPS
OS support
- macOS
- macOS
- Linux
- FedoraArch Linux
- Notes
- macOS 13.4 (Ventura) and later. Windows runs only inside a virtual machine such as Parallels. Asahi Linux supports the M2 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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