The M5 Ultra Mac Studio tears through our benchmark tests
The Mac Studio review unit that Apple sent us to test this year is, put simply, kind of outrageous. The M5 Ultra Mac Studio tears through our benchmark tests
By Dillip Chowdary • Sep 22, 2026 • Source: The Verge
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The Verge reports: The M5 Ultra Mac Studio tears through our benchmark tests. The Mac Studio review unit that Apple sent us to test this year is, put simply, kind of outrageous. It has an M5 Ultra chip with a 36-core CPU and 80-core GPU, 256GB of RAM, and 4TB of storage and costs $12,299. This thing is not for your typical content creation workloads. It's for AI […]
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For primary quotes and complete technical detail, see The Verge's original report linked above.
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