AI BriefingNew Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
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Apple has unveiled the new Mac Studio featuring M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips.
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Apple has announced the new Mac Studio featuring M5 Max and M5 Ultra chips. This product boosts on-device AI performance by up to 4.3x and supports up to 512GB of unified memory to handle the most demanding pro workloads.
The M5 Max features an 18-core CPU and up to a 40-core GPU, with Neural Accelerators built into each GPU core to significantly increase AI computation speed. The M5 Ultra offers a 36-core CPU, up to an 80-core GPU, and 512GB of unified memory, enabling large language models (LLMs) to run entirely locally.
In terms of connectivity, it supports Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 for the first time, and allows for fast external storage and PCIe expansion chassis via Thunderbolt 5. Thunderbolt 5 helps cluster multiple Mac Studio systems to deliver up to 3x faster performance for distributed AI inference.
Pre-orders for the new Mac Studio begin today, with the official launch on September 22.
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