What are the performance improvements of the M2 Ultra chip?

Question

What’s the performance of the M2 Ultra chip like when compared to its predecessor chips?

Answer 1

The M2 Ultra chip has notable advancements compared to previous generations. It is 15 to 20% quicker in single-core performance making it the highest score achieved by any Mac. With a single chip, multicore CPU performance is also up by 15-20 percent which again makes it the fastest Mac ever tested. And, the M2 Ultra has a new 76-core GPU, has improvements in software which increase work efficiency such as a new Media engine made for parallel workloads, but that can also focus all its cores on one workload for quicker exports.

Comments

it's kinda weird how the M1 ultra was pretty decent at launch, with top-tier CPU-performance and mid-level gpu performance and now the M2 is just 15% faster while intel and AMD have increased performance by 40% for CPUs and Nvidia and AMD nearly doubled the GPU performance...

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I find it revealing the the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT is your performance winner for Metal scores, beating the M2 Ultra (I'm assuming this is a max GPU core count chip). This implies the W6800 duo might still be the best option for many graphics operations, meaning this machine is not a replacement for those that need maximum graphics performance. It's not my area of expertise, but I'd love to see this broken down. Also, the upper bound of 192 GB might be a limitation as well for certain operations.

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10:15 Same with the iPhones: iPhone 6 and 6s look the same but are decades away in performance. Quite literally iPhone 6s got software updates a decade longer than the iPhone 6. Reason: iPhone 6s used a 64bit dual core architecture.