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The SoC is super large but only glued in the middle, heat dissipation on both sides

Mac Studio With the M1 Ultra after a short time being announced by Apple, it has also reached reviewers, most of which give positive reviews about its performance and performance. Page Max Tech bought 2 Mac Studio, so I decided to dissect one to see the internal structure.

Open Mac Studio with M1 Ultra to view components: Super large SOC but only glued in the middle, heat dissipation on both sides - Photo 1.
Open Mac Studio with M1 Ultra to examine components: Super large SOC but only glued in the middle, heat dissipation on both sides - Photo 2.

To open the machine we need to start from the bottom, after removing a rubber gasket, there will be 4 exposed screws. After removing a small speaker, we can remove the power supply part of the machine to get to the motherboard.

Open Mac Studio with M1 Ultra to examine components: SOC is super large but only glued in the middle, heat dissipation on both sides - Photo 3.
Open Mac Studio with M1 Ultra to view components: SOC is super large, but only glued in the middle, heat dissipation on both sides - Photo 4.

Here Max Tech found a good point of Mac Studio: the machine’s board is “clamped” between the cooling system. We can see 2 heat pipes going from the back of the circuit where the M1 Ultra is located and connected to the top cooling system with screws. Getting this circuitry and heatsink out of the machine is not easy either, the Max Tech channel had to remove all the surrounding connections before this component could lift it out.

Open Mac Studio with M1 Ultra to view components: Super large SOC but only glued in the middle, heat dissipation on both sides - Photo 5.

After unscrewing a few more screws, we come to the “star component” of Mac Studio: the SOC M1 Ultra. We call this SOC because under the same heatsink, the company has integrated CPU, GPU and RAM. When comparing the size with a CPU from AMD, the Ryzen 3300X, we see the “huge” size of the M1 Ultra, which also takes up nearly half the area of ​​the Mac Studio board.

Open Mac Studio with M1 Ultra to view components: Super large SOC but only glued in the middle, heat dissipation on both sides - Photo 6.
Open Mac Studio with M1 Ultra to view components: SOC is super large but only glued in the middle, heat dissipation on both sides - Photo 7.

But as you may have noticed, Apple just applies thermal paste to a long strip in the center of the SOC, which is where its processing components are located. The M1 Ultra uses a technology that the company calls “UltraFushion”, which combines the two processing components of the M1 Max into one with a high-speed connection for a total of 20 CPU cores, 64 GPU cores with 114 billion transistors.

The Mac Studio with M1 Ultra starts at $4,000 with 64GB of RAM and a 48-core GPU, while the top-of-the-line version goes for $5,800 with a 64-core GPU and 128GB of RAM.


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