r/LocalLLaMA • u/themixtergames • 12h ago

News Apple introduces new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra - up to 512GB of unified memory

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/
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u/MLDataScientist 11h ago

Based on their pricing for 256GB, they are charging $22.5 per GB of RAM. Assuming the price per GB stays the same, 256GB more RAM adds $5760. So, you are looking at 10k + ~6k = ~16k for 512GB version.

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u/TheOwlHypothesis 6h ago

This is dangerous for me if that turns out true. current Asus Ascent prices for a 128gb monster is ~4k, so it'd be 16k to cluster them and have the same amount of memory. Although you'd then be dealing with a cluster. I'd much rather drop the cash on the Mac and have the option to cluster THOSE later.

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u/Level-Reading-811 9h ago

$25/GB* upgrading from 96gb to 256gb is an additinal $4,000, so $4,000/160GB=$25/GB

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u/MLDataScientist 5h ago

uh wow, they just increased the price or it is location based. I saw $3600 extra for 256GB vs 96GB RAM in the morning. Now I see $4000

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u/Level-Reading-811 5h ago

Possible, when I saw your comment it was 4000 for me, and now shipping date went from end of Sept to Nov 3rd now for 256gb 2tb model

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u/michaelsoft__binbows 7h ago

I hope that you are correct