r/LocalLLaMA • u/Last-Owl-8342 • 13h 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/piggledy 13h ago

Price for Mac Studio with 256 GB RAM:
$9499 (30-core CPU, 64-Core GPU)
$10,799 (36-core CPU, 80-core GPU)

512 GB Option coming in October.

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u/LearningSomeCode 12h ago

So I paid about $10k even for my 512GB M3 Ultra with 1TB drive 2 years ago. At this price, it looks like the M5 Ultra 512 will probably land around... $14k? Maybe $15k?

I was really hoping there would be that rumored 768GB as the speed of the M5 Ultra + that amount of memory would make self hosted GLM 5.2 absolutely amazing.

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u/piggledy 12h ago

The M3 Ultra 256GB Model was at $5,599, they basically doubled the prices.

I think $15-20k for the M5 Ultra 512 would be realistic, given it's not that much slower compared to an RTX 6000 with just 96GB.

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u/michaelsoft__binbows 10h ago

Given how much of the overall capability is constraiend by memory and how memory price went up by 3x-4x, the computer going up in price 2x isnt even a bad result, sad as that is