New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

meerita

Mac Studio with M5 Max starts at $2,499 (U.S.) and $2,299 (U.S.) for education. Additional configure-to-order options are available at apple.com/mac-studio. Mac Studio with M5 Ultra starts at $5,499 (U.S.) and $5,099 (U.S.). I am in Europe, and the Mac Studio M5 Ultra GPU 64 cores with 96GB RAM is up to 6.649,00 €. Ouch.

gizajob

Bizarre there isn’t a 1TB RAM option hidden away for the excessively frivolous or VC funded.

nythroaway048

512GB unified memory option coming available in October.

ricardobayes

512GB unified RAM is going to be really good for running local LLMs.

egonschiele

> M6 supports up to 32GB of unified memory to multitask across demanding apps and run LLMs on device for secure and private agentic tasks. It also provides up to 170GB/s of unified memory bandwidth — a 10 percent increase over M5 and a 2.5x increase over M1. Isn't 170GB/s slow for bandwidth?

joshstrange

Due to pricing insanity (not that Apple prices weren’t insane before the ram/ssd shortages) I’m not in the market but I do wonder if my next computer should be a Mac Studio instead of a MBP that lives its life docked. Might be better to just run a Studio and Neo for the very few times I actually need remote capabilities.

alberth

M6 (base) in Mac Mini too: https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/

blints

10 grand for 256GB memory. Likely double that for 512GB, but won't be available or finalized until October. Thunderbolt 5 is highest bandwidth external IO available at 120Gb/s. 1.2TB/s claimed max internal memory bandwidth. Not exactly "future proof" for >1T parameter models but good for targeting specific lower-parameter models, or if you can rely on pipeline parallelism and run a cluster.

tristor

I wish they were offering 1TB of Unified Memory for the M5 Ultra. I already have an M5 Max MBP w/ 128GB of RAM for running local models, and while there's a /few/ models that I can run in 512GB that I can't run in 128GB that are interesting, where things really shift is at 1TB of memory which allows you run >1T parameter models w/ 4 bit quants reliably. 512GB is just on the edge of "enough", which is maybe the point of maximum frustration considering current memory prices. Personally, I can't justify dropping the dosh for a 512GB M5 Ultra, but I would be able to justify it to myself if I could get 1TB of memory, because it'd guarantee the flexibility with local models I currently am missing. Seems a huge miss to not offer this... for a price.

intrasight

It seems super reasonably priced to me. It's only twice as expensive as my first Mac which only had 128K of memory.

alberth

It looks like speculation that Apple would raise the base chip’s maximum RAM from 32GB to 48GB was wrong. Apple also launched the base M6 today with a 32GB RAM limit, suggesting 512GB may remain the maximum for Ultra chips for some time. Since these Ultra chips combine 16 base chips: 32GB × 16 = 512GB

polyterative

Very much happy with my machine.Got a base m4 max studio in December. 2350eur what a deal

speckx

I was looking forward and hoping that the Mini and Studio would have 8K at 120Hz. Oh well, maybe the M7s will have that.

neko_ranger

No looking to cheat, which is better: the MAX or ULTRA?

swader999

Here's me trying to justify this when I can run frontier models in the cloud for less than the monthly finance charge for this beast.

Devasta

If I were to get one of these, realistically what is the most advanced AI model I could run locally?

bodash

"512GB memory option for M5 Ultra coming late October"

speedping

The article's headline contains an em dash. I wonder if it's AI-generated

nalekberov

Boy, oh boy Apple is the new shovel seller during AI gold rush. Most people at Apple have already realized that their processors are already too powerful for regular users - heck, as a developer my M2 Pro with 32 GB RAM is more than enough for me. Regular users don’t care about local AI either. So, they will probably extract as much money as possible during AI gold rush, but then we will most likely see Apple a. Making their software worse (god forbid, forced updates) b. Making their hardware impossible to repair (as they almost accomplished this already) and easier to break.

prometheus1992

The new mac minis and mac studios are going to be in shortage for at least first 6 months from 9.22