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The M5 Ultra Mac Studio tears through our benchmark tests
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There’s a lot to consider with Apple’s over-the-top $12,300 computer, so this is just a first taste.
There’s a lot to consider with Apple’s over-the-top $12,300 computer, so this is just a first taste.
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The Mac Studio review unit that Apple sent us to test this year is, put simply, kind of outrageous. It has an M5 Ultra chip with a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU, 256GB of RAM, and 4TB of storage and costs $12,299. This thing is not for your typical content creation workloads. It’s for AI developers and some of the most demanding 3D visual effects houses out there.
The latest version of Apple’s most powerful computer begins shipping today with new chips and prices that extend even further into the stratosphere. The new Mac Studio uses the same design that’s been with us since 2022, replete with ultra-fast ports both front and back, now kitted out with either an M5 Max or M5 Ultra chip, compared to the M4 Max or M3 Ultra of last year’s model.
The M5 Max model starts at a relatively modest $2,499 with an 18-core CPU / 32-core GPU, 36GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. We’ve tested an M5 Max already, in the MacBook Pro, where it starts at $4,099 with the same amount of memory and 2TB of storage (the equivalent Mac Studio costs $3,299). The M5 Ultra is another beast altogether. It starts at $5,499 with 30 CPU cores, 64 GPU cores, 96GB of memory and 1TB of storage.