Apple · Engadget
The original Mac Studio rolled out in March 2022 with Max and Ultra variants
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The same aluminum block has seen four different generations of silicon.
Key facts
- Then along came the AI-fueled memory shortage to screw the market, leading Apple to raise M4 Max pricing from $1,999 to $2,499 and the M3 Ultra from $3,999 to $5,299
- The M2 Max launched with a 12-core CPU, up to a 38-core GPU and 96GB of memory, with the M2 Ultra doubling all of that to 24 cores, a 76-core GPU and 192GB at 800GB/s memory bandwidth, powered
- The M1 Max, meanwhile, had a 10-core CPU, 32GB of memory and a 512GB SSD for $1,999
- Starting at an eye-watering $3,999, the M1 Ultra came with 20 cores and 64GB, stretching to 128GB if you were willing to part with even more cash
Summary
Put the first-gen Apple Mac Studio next to the newly released M5 Ultra, and you'd struggle to tell them apart on looks alone. That first-gen M1 Ultra topped out at a paltry-by-comparison 128GB versus the M5 Ultra's 512GB, which also moves data at 1.2TB/s, nearly 50 percent higher than what the M3 Ultra managed. The original Mac Studio launched in March 2022 with Max and Ultra variants, the latter featuring a neat party trick with its chip. Starting at an eye-watering $3,999, the M1 Ultra came with 20 cores and 64GB, stretching to 128GB if you were willing to part with even more cash. Apple announced the refreshed second-gen Mac Studio lineup at WWDC in June 2023, with the overall design not gaining so much as a single port.