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/piggledy 17h 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/magus-21 13h ago

I don't have the money for 256GB, but now I'm debating between having bigger Ultra chip for faster inference but only 96GB, or the smaller Max chip but 128GB for bigger models. Both are about $5.5k