Apple Introduces New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra

On Aug. 25, 2026, Apple announced the new Mac Studio, featuring M5 Max and the all-new M5 Ultra, delivering "a monumental leap in AI performance and even faster graphics for the most demanding pro workflows, all in its signature compact design that lives right on a user's desk." Now featuring up to 4.3 times faster AI performance; up to 2 times faster storage; up to 1.8 times faster graphics; up to 1.3 times faster CPU speed, along with higher memory bandwidth, Mac Studio empowers creatives, developers, AI researchers, data scientists and more to push the boundaries of what they can do.

Mac Studio with M5 Max features an 18-core CPU, an up-to-40-core GPU with Neural Accelerators built into each core and up to 128GB of unified memory, accelerating complex pro and AI workloads. With the powerful M5 Ultra, Mac Studio scales up to a 36-core CPU, up to an 80-core GPU and 512GB of unified memory, enabling users to run enormous LLMs entirely on device. Meanwhile, Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 come to Mac Studio for the first time, while Thunderbolt 5 rounds out its extensive connectivity, so users can take advantage of fast external storage, PCIe expansion chassis and powerful hub solutions for the most intense workloads.

"Mac Studio is the ultimate desktop for on-device AI and the world’s most demanding pro workflows, relied on by users for its tremendous performance and extensive pro connectivity, all in a quiet, compact design that sits right on your desk — and today, we're pushing the boundaries even further," said Johny Srouji, Apple's chief hardware officer. "With the powerful M5 Max and the incredible capabilities of M5 Ultra, Mac Studio ushers in a new era of desktop computing, delivering huge performance gains for pro workloads and AI inference with frontier-class models."

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