There’s a new Mac in Apple’s line-up – and it’s made for power users like videographers, photographers, developers and engineers. Unveiled on March 5, the Apple Mac Studio with M4 Max or M3 Ultra chips brings some of Apple’s most advanced technology yet, including the most unified memory to date for any personal computer, up to 32 core CPU, up to 80 core GPU and a media engine made for working with multiple large 4K ProRes files.
Announced the day after the launch of the iPad Air M4 and the same day as the new MacBook Air M4, Apple’s John Temus, a senior vice president of hardware engineering, calls the new Mac Studio “the most powerful Mac we’ve ever made.” Compared to the earlier Mac Studio with M2 Max or M2 Ultra, the 2025 release brings the M4 Max, which, like the M4 Max version of the MacBook Pro, jumps up to up to 16 cores with 12 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, and up to 546GB/s of memory bandwidth. But, those specs are similar to the M4 Max version of the MacBook Pro. The M3 Ultra chip brings more desktop power, with the M3 Ultra chip bringing up to 32-cores in the CPU and up to 80 core GPU with 819 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
