Apple

Designs the M series of unified-memory chips, whose larger parts carry enough memory bandwidth to matter for local AI work.

Accelerators · Chip Design · CPUs

Cupertino, United States ·Founded 1976

GPUs and accelerators

Architectures

Apple hardware on Flopper

The highest figure we hold for each spec, and the part it belongs to.

Highest memory

512 GB

M3 Ultra

Highest memory bandwidth

1,200 GB/s

M5 Ultra

20 parts from Apple, most powerful first.

#	Model	Architecture	Memory	Bandwidth	TDP	Released
1	M5 Ultra Claimed	Apple M5	512 GB	1,200 GB/s	—	2026
2	M3 Ultra Claimed	Apple M3	512 GB	819 GB/s	—	2025
3	M2 Ultra Claimed	Apple M2	192 GB	800 GB/s	—	2023
4	M1 Ultra Claimed	Apple M1	128 GB	800 GB/s	—	2022
5	M4 Max Claimed	Apple M4	128 GB	546 GB/s	—	2024
6	M5 Max Claimed	Apple M5	128 GB	614 GB/s	—	2026
7	M3 Max Claimed	Apple M3	128 GB	400 GB/s	—	2023
8	M2 Max Claimed	Apple M2	96 GB	400 GB/s	—	2023
9	M1 Max Claimed	Apple M1	64 GB	400 GB/s	—	2021
10	M4 Pro Claimed	Apple M4	64 GB	273 GB/s	—	2024
11	M5 Pro Claimed	Apple M5	64 GB	307 GB/s	—	2026
12	M3 Pro Claimed	Apple M3	36 GB	150 GB/s	—	2023
13	M2 Pro Claimed	Apple M2	32 GB	200 GB/s	—	2023
14	M1 Pro Claimed	Apple M1	32 GB	200 GB/s	—	2021
15	M6 Claimed	Apple M6	32 GB	170 GB/s	—	2026
16	M4 Claimed	Apple M4	32 GB	120 GB/s	—	2024
17	M5 Claimed	Apple M5	32 GB	154 GB/s	—	2025
18	M2 Claimed	Apple M2	24 GB	100 GB/s	—	2022
19	M3 Claimed	Apple M3	24 GB	100 GB/s	—	2023
20	M1 Claimed	Apple M1	16 GB	67 GB/s	—	2020

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