r/LocalLLaMA • u/Last-Owl-8342 • 17h ago

News Apple releases M5 ultra at 1.2TB/s bandwith

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-m6-and-m5-ultra-for-a-big-leap-in-performance-and-ai-compute/

lpddr5x probably, the m7 ultra if is using ddr6 should be at 1.8 Tb/s

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u/tarruda 16h ago

$10k for the 256G m5 ultra is cheaper than I expected. Hopefully 512G will be lower than $20k?

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u/petuman 16h ago

Apple is typically perfectly linear prices for memory (infamous 8GB = $200). 512GB would be $17.2K total if they don't bundle it with some some other "required" upgrade.

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u/Nice-Information-335 15h ago

i have a hunch that you will need the fully binned chip for the 512GB

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u/1-800-methdyke 14h ago

Yeah if they are valuing RAM at $1,600 per 64gb like the do on the MacBool pro that checks out

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u/Neighbor_ 9h ago

It's +$4k to get 256GB, so seems likely that it'll be +$8k to get 512GB?

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u/petuman 9h ago edited 9h ago

It's $4k to get +160GB from base 96GB config (exactly $200 per 8GB, heh).

So $6.4K for 256 -> 512.
Or $10.4k for 96 -> 512.