Besides the new MacBook Air M4, Apple also announced a new Mac Studio with M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips. It comes in two variants based on the chip and memory configurations, with a starting price of RM8,999. Here's everything you need to know.
The Mac Studio features an up to 16-core CPU, an up to 40-core GPU, over half a terabyte per second of unified memory bandwidth, and a Neural Engine that is over 3x faster than the M1 Max. The Mac Studio with M4 Max can run on-device AI models incredibly fast, and the GPU in it offers dynamic caching, hardware-accelerated mesh shading, and a second-generation ray-tracing engine.
The Mac Studio with M4 Max starts at 36GB of unified memory, with support for up to 128GB. The M4 Max features a Media Engine that provides two ProRes accelerators, enabling the Mac Studio performance suitable for videographers who can effortlessly work with multiple streams of 4K ProRes.
Meanwhile, the Mac Studio with M3 Ultra delivers nearly 2x faster performance than M4 Max in workloads. With the new M3 Ultra, Mac Studio features an up to 32-core CPU with 24 performance cores and also offers an up to 80-core GPU. In addition, it also has a 32-core Neural Engine for on-device AI and machine learning (ML); and a high-bandwidth memory architecture that delivers over 800GB/s of unified memory bandwidth.
The Mac Studio with M3 Ultra starts with 96GB of unified memory, which can be configured up to 512GB and up to 16TB of ultrafast SSD storage. In context, that’s enough storage for over 12 hours of 8K ProRes video. The advanced graphics architecture brings Dynamic Caching, along with hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing.
It's also worth mentioning that the new Mac Studio features Thunderbolt 5 ports, capable of delivering transfer speeds up to 120 Gb/s. This also enables the Mac Studio M3 Ultra to drive up to eight Pro Display XDRs at the full 6K resolution. Mac Studio also offers a wide array of connectivity, including a 10Gb Ethernet port, an HDMI port, and an SDXC card slot on the front, conveniently, along with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
As mentioned earlier, the Mac Studio comes in two variants. If you're looking to get the Mac Studio M3 Ultra, it costs RM17,999 as it has much higher unified memory and storage. The official sales launch is not available yet, the same applies to the Apple Store pickup. Until then, stay tuned for the first-day sales news.
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