The Mac Studio is part of Apple’s Pro lineup, designed for users that push their Macs harder, with video, audio and 3D processing. For the last year, the Mac Studio has been the most powerful Mac in the range, outperforming the ageing Intel Mac Pro by significant amounts. While there is now a new Mac Pro on the horizon, it shares the same M2 Ultra chip that can be found in the new Mac Studio. Plus if you don’t need the rack space, it will save you £2k to £3k to have the same spec in the Mac Studio.
The beauty of the new Mac Studio though is that it’s available with the slightly less powerful M2 Max chip – a 12-core CPU, with either a 30 or 38-core GPU and a 16-core neural engine. That’s still a seriously impressive offering, with double the unified memory of the M2 Pro chip and 20-30% faster than the M1 Max chip (30% from the GPU and 20% from the CPU).
