cpu
Apple M5 Ultra
36C/36T
Released
Sep 22, 2026
CPUDesktopReleased Mar 12, 2025
Apple M3 Ultra
32C/32T · 4.0 GHz
The M3 Ultra combines two M3 Max dies through Apple's UltraFusion interconnect, with 2.5 TB/s between the dies and 184 billion transistors in total. Announced in March 2025 for the Mac Studio, more than a year after the M3 Max, it added Thunderbolt 5 and up to 512 GB of unified memory, enough to run very large language models on device. It came with either a 28-core CPU (20 performance and 8 efficiency cores) and 60-core GPU, or a 32-core CPU and 80-core GPU.
General
- Manufacturer
- Apple
- Model
- Apple M3 Ultra
- Segment
- Desktop
- Generation
- M3 family
- Codename
- —
- Architecture
- ARM64
- Microarchitecture
- —
- Release date
- Mar 12, 2025
- Price
Cores & clocks
- Cores / threads
- 32 cores / 32 threadsP24+E8
- Base clock
- —
- Boost clock
- 4.05 GHz
- TDP (design W)
- —
- Unlocked
- ✕ No
- L2 cache
- —
- L3 cache
- —
- Technology (nm)
- 3 nm3 nm
Platform
- Socket
- BGA (soldered SoC)
- 2-CPU (multi-socket)
- ✕ No
- Integrated GPU
- Apple GPU (80-core)
- Memory type
- LPDDR5-6400 (unified)
- Memory size
- 96 – 512 GB
- ECC memory
- —
- PCIe
- —
Instructions & AI
- Instruction extensions
- ARMv8.6-ANEONAMXFP16BF16i8mmdotprodAESSHA3PAuth
- NPU
- 32-core Neural Engine
OS support
- macOS
- macOS
- Notes
- macOS 14 (Sonoma) and later. Windows runs only inside a virtual machine such as Parallels. Asahi Linux does not yet support the M3 generation, so no mainstream Linux distribution runs natively; ChromeOS is not supported. Apple does not publish base clocks or TDP figures.
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