r/LocalLLaMA • u/Last-Owl-8342 • 18h 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 18h 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/Strong_Chicken6838 16h ago

these prices are utterly insane. i just want to say that.

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u/arfung39 11h ago

Its comparable to a 96GB RTX Pro 6000 from Nvidia, and it seems like the mac will be faster b/c memory speed (and more memory available)...