Apple has today officially announced the new Mac Studio featuring the M4 Max and the new M3 Ultra chip. Mac Studio can tackle the most intense workloads with its powerful CPU, Apple’s advanced graphics architecture, higher unified memory capacity, ultrafast SSD storage, and a faster and more efficient Neural Engine.
John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering said, “With this new Mac Studio, we’re delivering even more extreme performance with M4 Max and M3 Ultra, support for half a terabyte of unified memory, up to 16TB of superfast storage, and Thunderbolt 5 connectivity. Mac Studio truly is the ultimate pro desktop.”
New Mac Studio with M4 Max and M3 Ultra chip
Mac Studio with M4 Max
This device is suitable for video editors, colorists, developers, engineers, photographers, creative pros, and other users who need to blaze through intensive workflows. The GPU in M4 Max also brings Apple’s advanced graphics architecture to Mac Studio for the first time, including dynamic caching, hardware-accelerated mesh shading, and a second-generation ray-tracing engine for more seamless content creation and gaming. Mac Studio with M4 Max starts at 36GB of unified memory, with support for up to 128 GB. With the powerful Media Engine in M4 Max, which features two ProRes accelerators, Mac Studio’s performance is outstanding for videographers who can effortlessly work with multiple streams of 4K ProRes.
Mac Studio with M4 Max enables:
- Up to 1.6x faster image processing in Adobe Photoshop when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Max, and up to 2.9x faster when compared to the 27-inch iMac with Core i9.
- Up to 2.1x faster build performance when compiling code in Xcode when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Max, and up to 3.1x faster when compared to the 27-inch iMac with Core i9.
- Up to 1.2x faster ProRes transcode performance in Compressor when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Max, and up to 2.8x faster when compared to the 27-inch iMac with Core i9.
- Up to 1.6x faster video processing performance in Topaz Video AI when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Max, and up to 5x faster when compared to the 27-inch iMac with Core i9.
Mac Studio with M3 Ultra
Mac Studio with M3 Ultra starts with 96GB of unified memory, which can be configured up to 512GB and up to 16TB of ultrafast SSD storage, so content and data can be kept locally. That’s enough storage for over 12 hours of 8K ProRes video. The advanced graphics architecture brings Dynamic Caching, along with hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing, so graphics workflows like GPU-based renderers are up to 2.6x faster than Mac Studio with M1 Ultra.
Mac Studio with M3 Ultra enables:
- Up to 16.9x faster token generation using an LLM with hundreds of billions of parameters in LM Studio when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Ultra, thanks to its massive amounts of unified memory.
- Up to 2.6x faster scene rendering performance in Maxon Redshift when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Ultra, and up to 6.4x faster when compared to the 16-core Intel-based Mac Pro with Radeon Pro W5700X.
- Up to 1.1x faster base-calling for DNA sequencing in Oxford Nanopore MinKNOW when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Ultra, and up to 21.1x faster when compared to the 16-core Intel-based Mac Pro with Radeon Pro W5700X.
- Up to 1.4x faster 8K video rendering performance in Final Cut Pro when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Ultra, and up to 4x faster when compared to the 16-core Intel-based Mac Pro with Radeon Pro W5700X.
Mac Studio features Thunderbolt 5 ports that deliver transfer speeds up to 120 Gb/s. Mac Studio also offers a wide array of connectivity within easy reach for pros, including a 10Gb Ethernet port, an HDMI port, and an SDXC card slot on the front to conveniently import photos and video, along with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
With Apple Intelligence users can further enhance their experience with features like Writing tools, Priority notifications, live transcription in notes, new Siri improvements, ChatGPT integration, Image Playground, and Private Cloud Compute. macOS Sequoia completes the new Mac Studio experience with a host of exciting features like iPhone Mirroring, easier Window tilting, Passwords app, built-in background for video calls, Safari browser, redesigned Reader, Distraction control, Personalized spatial audio, improvements to game mode, along with a breadth of exciting titles, including Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition by CD PROJEKT RED, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and more.
Next month, macOS Sequoia 15.4 will make it easier than ever to set up the new Mac Studio with the iPhone.
Mac Studio, together with Studio Display, empowers creative users to build the studio of their dreams. Studio Display perfectly pairs with Mac Studio with its expansive 27-inch 5K Retina display, 12MP Center Stage camera, studio-quality three-mic array, and six-speaker sound system with Spatial Audio. For users working on HDR workflows, Pro Display XDR offers a 32-inch Retina 6K display with up to 1600 nits of peak HDR brightness. Customers can also add matching Magic accessories — including Magic Keyboard with Touch ID, Magic Trackpad, and Magic Mouse — that beautifully complement the elegant design of Mac Studio and Studio Display.
New Mac Studio: Availability
Customers can pre-order the new Mac Studio from Apple Stores and the Apple Store app while it will be arriving to customers and will be in Apple Store locations and Apple authorized resellers, starting from 12th March.
In the US, Mac Studio with M4 Max chip is available at $1999 and Mac Studio with M3 Ultra chip is available at $3999. Meanwhile in India, Mac Studio with M4 Max chip is priced at Rs 2,14,900 and Mac Studio with M3 Ultra chip is priced at Rs 4,29,900.
