GoKawiilAlongside the new Mac mini, Apple today has announced its next-generation Mac Studio. The new Mac Studio lineup is powered by the M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips and supports up to 512GB of unified memory.
The new Mac Studio models are available to pre-order today.
M5 Max Mac Studio
First, Apple has announced a new Mac Studio powered by M5 Max, an upgrade from the previous-generation M4 Max model. The M5 Max first debuted in the MacBook Pro earlier this year.
M5 Max features an 18-core CPU with 6 super cores and 12 performance cores. The GPU can be configured with up to 40 cores, with Neural Accelerators built into each core. Apple says GPU performance is up to 50% faster than the previous generation. It offers up to 614GB/s of unified memory bandwidth, up from up to 546 GB/s with the M4 Max generation.
The M5 Max Mac Studio starts with 36GB of unified memory and supports up to 128GB. For comparison’s sake, those numbers are the same as when the M4 Max Mac Studio was first announced. In the intervening year, however, Apple has gradually whittled down the options due to the industry-wide memory shortage. As of yesterday, the M4 Max Mac Studio started at 36GB of memory and maxed out at 96GB.
Here are some benchmarks Apple shared for the M5 Max Mac Studio:
Up to 10.7x faster LLM prompt processing in LM Studio when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Max, and 3.9x faster than M4 Max.
Up to 7.4x faster text-to-image performance when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Max, and up to 3.5x faster than M4 Max.
Up to 5.3x faster Magic Mask performance in Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Max, and up to 3x faster than M4 Max.
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