Mac Studio Buyer's Guide: M5 Max vs. M5 Ultra
An identical enclosure measuring 3.7 inches tall and 7.7 inches wide Neural Accelerators built into every GPU core, and hardware-accelerated ray tracing Hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and ProRes RAW, plus AV1 decode A next-generation SSD architecture that Apple says is up to twice as fast as before Thunderbolt 5 with up to 120Gb/s of bandwidth, and clustering of multiple systems using RDMA (remote direct memory access) 10Gb Ethernet, HDMI, and an SDXC card slot (UHS-II) Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6 via the N1 chip, both new to the Mac Studio Genlock over USB-C for synchronization with professional camera capture A 3.5mm headphone jack with support for high-impedance headphones macOS 27, Apple Intelligence, and Siri AI Mac Studio (M5 Max) Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) Starts at $2,499 Starts at $5,499 M5 Max chip M5 Ultra chip 18-core CPU with 6 super cores and 12 performance cores Up to 36-core CPU with 12 super cores and 24 performance cores, from 30 cores Up to 40-core GPU, from 32 cores Up to 80-core GPU, from 64 cores 16-core Neural Engine 32-core Neural Engine Up to 614GB/s memory bandwidth 1.2TB/s memory bandwidth 36GB, 48GB, 64GB, or 128GB of unified memory 96GB, 256GB, or 512GB of unified memory 512GB, 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, or 8TB of storage 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, 8TB, or 16TB of storage Up to 3.9x faster AI performance than M4 Max Up to 4.3x the peak AI compute performance of M3 Ultra Up to 50% faster graphics than M4 Max Up to 1.8x faster graphics than M3 Ultra One video decode engine and two video encode engines Two video decode engines and four video encode engines Two ProRes encode and decode engines Four ProRes encode and decode engines Four Thunderbolt 5 ports, two USB-C ports, and two USB-A ports Six Thunderbolt 5 ports and two USB-A ports Support for up to five 4K displays, four 6K displays, or two 8K displays Support for up to eight 4K displays, eight 6K displays, or four 8K displays 6.0 pounds (2.7 kg) 8.0 pounds (3.6 kg)