Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studio: Up to 512GB RAM and 1.2TB/s Bandwidth, Starting at $5,499

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Apple announced the M5 Ultra Mac Studio, featuring up to 512GB of unified memory and 1.2TB/s memory bandwidth — a 50% increase over the M3 Ultra. The M5 Ultra is a quad-die chip with up to 36 CPU cores and an 80-core GPU, and marks the first time Neural Accelerators have appeared in an Ultra chip, with Apple claiming up to 4x faster LLM prompt processing. Pre-orders are open and base units ship September 22, though 512GB configurations are not available until late October. Pricing starts at $5,499 for a binned 30-core variant, while the full-spec 36-core model with 256GB of unified memory reaches approximately $10,799 before storage upgrades. The steep pricing is partly attributed to an ongoing DRAM shortage driven by AI datacenter demand, which has pushed memory upgrade costs significantly higher than previous generations.

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