AI BriefingApple Unveils New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
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Apple has unveiled the new Mac Studio featuring the M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips.
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Apple has unveiled the new Mac Studio featuring the M5 Max and the all-new M5 Ultra chip. This new product redefines the standards for on-device AI and high-performance professional workflows, supporting up to 4.3x faster AI performance and up to 512GB of unified memory.
Models equipped with the M5 Ultra feature up to a 36-core CPU, 80-core GPU, and 512GB of memory, enabling the complete local execution of massive LLMs. The M5 Max model offers an 18-core CPU, up to a 40-core GPU, and 128GB of memory, with a Neural Accelerator integrated into each GPU core to accelerate matrix multiplication.
In terms of connectivity, it supports Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thunderbolt 5. Notably, configuring multiple Mac Studios into a cluster via Thunderbolt 5 can enhance distributed AI inference performance by up to 3x. Regarding the developer ecosystem, it supports the Core AI framework and MLX, enabling efficient local LLM deployment and training.
The new Mac Studio will be officially released on September 22, with pre-orders available starting today.
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