alt Hacker NewsApple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute
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I should have bought a 100 m4 mac minis when I had the chance. Thanks hyperscalers for buying all the supply and renting it back.
A m4 mac mini is better than al of these per dollar, msrp adjusted.
Hopefully by the end of the decade China figures out manufacturing at scale and fixes this.
> M5 Ultra features a massive amount of high-bandwidth unified memory, up to 512GB, and delivers a staggering 1.2TB/s of unified memory bandwidth that is 50 percent higher than M3 Ultra.
Apple never needed to participate in the AI race to zero. Because they were already at the finish line years ago building their own chips that can run large >100B parameter AI models locally.
yesterday someone posted a link saying xiaomi "matched" apple's latest M series performance. Was that for less than 24 hours?
will be great fun if one M5 Ultra with 512GB memory at 1.2T bandwidth capable of doing 3x smallish local model inferencing each at Opus 4.5 level of intelligence.
Well said
> Apple’s developer frameworks and tools — including Core AI, Core ML, Metal, and Xcode
Can we please kill the xcode. It is worst pile of garbage I have to use just to develop ios app.
fucking awesome
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Check to see how the new chips stack up, and if it's worth upgrading compared to what you have now, using this app that I wrote:
>M6 supports up to 32GB of unified memory
Is this a joke?
>Additionally, M5 Ultra features a massive amount of high-bandwidth unified memory, up to 512GB
Now we're talking. But at what cost?
512GB late october sounds lame.
and 512GB is so 2025.
Give us 1TB version. Where is the competitive spirit?
Cannot believe "moar transistors" is still the only idea they have.
I know they are a phone company, but I think they should focus on local models software, not only hardware.
Is Apple just going to announce everything silently from now on? No more getting excited for the big events to see what's new -- it just appears on the blog one day?
Also: "a staggering 1.2TB/s of unified memory bandwidth" -- yay, the GPU has reached the year 2020! (I'm a bit bitter that my M4 Max is near useless for local LLMs because of its low memory bandwidth.)