We already know there's a 370 W PSU in there. One wants that grounded.
If the M1 Ultra uses 250-300 W under load, that's just enough to have a few bus-powered devices attached.
We also already know how the M1 Max performs in a Mac Book Pro. The Studio Max may perform a little above that if even the 16" Mac Book Pro is thermally limited, but probably not much above.
The Studio Ultra cannot perform better than twice the Studio Max/MBP Max. Benchmarks and user reports will tell us how close to this cap the Ultra actually achieves.
Either way, that's a lot of computing power for under 370 W. But anyone who expects that the magic of Apple Silicon allows for workstation-class performance powered by a handful of LR6 batteries is obviously the victim of some lingering "reality distortion field".
Edit: Apple actually has an
animation showing intake from the bottom and exhaust by two large and tall blower fans.
100W or more is devoted to servicing the charging capability through USB-C
I am not well informed on details of M1 TDP but my vague recollection is that where Intel has a 60W envelope for cache-core complex, which can be boosted to 220W when overclocked, then a top GPU adds 200-300W, Apple gets the similar performance to overclock Intel with a 30W cache-core plus 30W GPU x2 for Ultra, so 150W.
We can look this up, it's on Apples brag sheet.
Whatever the numbers, they've engineered power / cooling to fit into a specific form-factor and made sure that balance is up to snuff.
Intel plays marketing games about the same concerns, rooting their kit in a sane TDP for total system package then unleashing or "unlock"ing or "boost"ing to allow enthusiasts (gamers) to make their systems very unreliable in exchange for performance on entertainment content and bragging rights. That approach is wasteful, but it has allowed the industry to learn a lot about the upper reaches of the performance, power, reliability tradeoffs. Maybe Apple stands on Intel's shoulders here? Idk
The key WRT Mac is that Apple, being a vertical integrator, and now a total system designer, has to take responsibility for the whole stack, whereas over on enthusiast PC planet (gamer custom builds) there's cat herding and buck-passing, which is great for revenue thanks to churn.
Back to Mac Studio: We know that whatever power-supply is in the Studio, it's been engineered to fit the application by a company that precisely knows the design limits because it did the entire design.
This happens for PCs too, it's not special, it's known as engineering. But the sort of PC used to make hackintoshes is a gamer PC, and due to the flamboyant nature enthusiast PC and of gaming kit, there's naturally going be some excitement in this crowd when we see a properly engineered system Lol
Forgive me, I became a snarky jerk
But only to make the point, the power-supply will have been engineered to fit, and you can add up the components. I think the Ultra counts for no more than 150W peak. Someone please correct this.
