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

819 GB/s

M3 Ultra

18 parts from Apple, newest first.

Model	Architecture	Memory	Bandwidth	TDP	Released
M3 Ultra Claimed	Apple M3	512 GB	819 GB/s	—	2025
M5 Max Claimed	Apple M5	128 GB	614 GB/s	—	2025
M5 Pro Claimed	Apple M5	64 GB	307 GB/s	—	2025
M5 Claimed	Apple M5	32 GB	154 GB/s	—	2025
M4 Claimed	Apple M4	32 GB	120 GB/s	—	2024
M4 Max Claimed	Apple M4	128 GB	546 GB/s	—	2024
M4 Pro Claimed	Apple M4	64 GB	273 GB/s	—	2024
M2 Max Claimed	Apple M2	96 GB	400 GB/s	—	2023
M2 Pro Claimed	Apple M2	32 GB	200 GB/s	—	2023
M2 Ultra Claimed	Apple M2	192 GB	800 GB/s	—	2023
M3 Claimed	Apple M3	24 GB	100 GB/s	—	2023
M3 Max Claimed	Apple M3	128 GB	400 GB/s	—	2023
M3 Pro Claimed	Apple M3	36 GB	150 GB/s	—	2023
M1 Ultra Claimed	Apple M1	128 GB	800 GB/s	—	2022
M2 Claimed	Apple M2	24 GB	100 GB/s	—	2022
M1 Max Claimed	Apple M1	64 GB	400 GB/s	—	2021
M1 Pro Claimed	Apple M1	32 GB	200 GB/s	—	2021
M1 Claimed	Apple M1	16 GB	67 GB/s	—	2020

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