March 5, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
Apple unveils new Mac Studio, probably the most highly effective Mac ever, that includes M4 Max and new M3 Extremely
With Thunderbolt 5, as much as 512GB of unified reminiscence, and an as much as 16TB SSD, all in a compact design, the last word professional desktop delivers much more efficiency
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple right this moment introduced the brand new Mac Studio, probably the most highly effective Mac ever made, that includes M4 Max and the brand new M3 Extremely chip. The final word professional desktop delivers groundbreaking professional efficiency, intensive connectivity now with Thunderbolt 5, and new capabilities in its compact and quiet design that may reside proper on a desk. Mac Studio can sort out probably the most intense workloads with its highly effective CPU, Apple’s superior graphics structure, greater unified reminiscence capability, ultrafast SSD storage, and a sooner and extra environment friendly Neural Engine. It offers a giant increase in efficiency in comparison with the earlier era, and a large leap for customers coming from older Macs.
Mac Studio is a powerhouse for AI, able to operating giant language fashions (LLMs) with over 600 billion parameters solely in reminiscence, because of its superior GPU and as much as 512GB of unified reminiscence with M3 Extremely — probably the most ever in a private pc. It’s additionally constructed for Apple Intelligence, the private intelligence system that transforms how customers work, talk, and categorical themselves, whereas defending their privateness. The brand new Mac Studio is out there to pre-order right this moment, with availability starting March 12.
“The brand new Mac Studio is probably the most highly effective Mac we’ve ever made,” mentioned John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice chairman of {Hardware} Engineering. “An entire game-changer for execs world wide — powering each residence and professional studios — Mac Studio sits in a category of its personal, providing a staggering quantity of efficiency in a compact, quiet design that matches fantastically in your desk. With this new Mac Studio, we’re delivering much more excessive efficiency with M4 Max and M3 Extremely, assist for half a terabyte of unified reminiscence, as much as 16TB of superfast storage, and Thunderbolt 5 connectivity. Mac Studio really is the last word professional desktop.”
Mac Studio with M4 Max: A Efficiency Juggernaut
The brand new Mac Studio with M4 Max is the proper selection for video editors, colorists, builders, engineers, photographers, inventive execs, and different customers who have to blaze via intensive workflows. It delivers phenomenal single-threaded CPU efficiency with the world’s quickest CPU core, together with excellent multithreaded CPU efficiency for complicated workloads. That includes an as much as 16-core CPU, an as much as 40-core GPU, over half a terabyte per second of unified reminiscence bandwidth, and a Neural Engine that’s over 3x sooner than M1 Max, Mac Studio with M4 Max can run on-device AI fashions extremely quick. Mac Studio with M4 Max is as much as 3.5x sooner than Mac Studio with M1 Max, and is as much as 6.1x sooner than probably the most highly effective Intel-based 27-inch iMac.1
The GPU in M4 Max additionally brings Apple’s superior graphics structure to Mac Studio for the primary time, together with dynamic caching, hardware-accelerated mesh shading, and a second-generation ray-tracing engine for extra seamless content material creation and gaming. Mac Studio with M4 Max begins at 36GB of unified reminiscence, with assist for as much as 128GB, so customers can do all the pieces from sorting via hundreds of photos with velocity and precision, to producing complicated compositions with a whole lot of tracks, plug-ins, and digital devices, all performed in actual time. And with the highly effective Media Engine in M4 Max, which options two ProRes accelerators, Mac Studio efficiency is excellent for videographers who can effortlessly work with a number of streams of 4K ProRes.
Mac Studio with M4 Max allows:1
- As much as 1.6x sooner picture processing in Adobe Photoshop when in comparison with Mac Studio with M1 Max, and as much as 2.9x sooner when in comparison with the 27-inch iMac with Core i9.
- As much as 2.1x sooner construct efficiency when compiling code in Xcode when in comparison with Mac Studio with M1 Max, and as much as 3.1x sooner when in comparison with the 27-inch iMac with Core i9.
- As much as 1.2x sooner ProRes transcode efficiency in Compressor when in comparison with Mac Studio with M1 Max, and as much as 2.8x sooner when in comparison with the 27-inch iMac with Core i9.
- As much as 1.6x sooner video processing efficiency in Topaz Video AI when in comparison with Mac Studio with M1 Max, and as much as 5x sooner when in comparison with the 27-inch iMac with Core i9.
Mac Studio with M3 Extremely: The Pinnacle of Professional Efficiency
Mac Studio with M3 Extremely pushes demanding workflows to an entire new degree. It delivers practically 2x sooner efficiency than M4 Max in workloads that make the most of excessive CPU and GPU core counts, and big quantities of unified reminiscence.2 Mac Studio with M3 Extremely is as much as 2.6x sooner than Mac Studio with M1 Extremely, and as much as 6.4x sooner than the 16-core Intel Xeon W-based Mac Professional.1 With the brand new M3 Extremely, Mac Studio options an as much as 32-core CPU with 24 efficiency cores, 50 p.c greater than any earlier Extremely chip and probably the most CPU cores ever in a Mac. It additionally affords an as much as 80-core GPU, greater than any Apple silicon chip; a robust 32-core Neural Engine for on-device AI and machine studying (ML); and a high-bandwidth reminiscence structure that delivers over 800GB/s of unified reminiscence bandwidth.
Mac Studio with M3 Extremely begins with 96GB of unified reminiscence, which may be configured as much as 512GB — probably the most unified reminiscence ever in a private pc — and as much as 16TB of ultrafast SSD storage, so content material and information may be stored domestically. That’s sufficient storage for over 12 hours of 8K ProRes video. The superior graphics structure brings Dynamic Caching, together with hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing, so graphics workflows like GPU-based renderers are as much as 2.6x sooner than Mac Studio with M1 Extremely.
Mac Studio with M3 Extremely allows:1
- As much as 16.9x sooner token era utilizing an LLM with a whole lot of billions of parameters in LM Studio when in comparison with Mac Studio with M1 Extremely, because of its huge quantities of unified reminiscence.
- As much as 2.6x sooner scene rendering efficiency in Maxon Redshift when in comparison with Mac Studio with M1 Extremely, and as much as 6.4x sooner when in comparison with the 16-core Intel-based Mac Professional with Radeon Professional W5700X.
- As much as 1.1x sooner basecalling for DNA sequencing in Oxford Nanopore MinKNOW when in comparison with Mac Studio with M1 Extremely, and as much as 21.1x sooner when in comparison with the 16-core Intel-based Mac Professional with Radeon Professional W5700X.
- As much as 1.4x sooner 8K video rendering efficiency in Remaining Lower Professional when in comparison with Mac Studio with M1 Extremely, and as much as 4x sooner when in comparison with the 16-core Intel-based Mac Professional with Radeon Professional W5700X.
Thunderbolt 5 for Excessive-Bandwidth Equipment and Enlargement
The brand new Mac Studio options Thunderbolt 5 ports that ship switch speeds as much as 120 Gb/s, as much as 3x sooner than the prior era, enabling sooner exterior storage, growth chassis, and highly effective hub options. For many who depend on PCIe growth playing cards for his or her workflows, Thunderbolt 5 permits customers to attach an exterior growth chassis with greater bandwidth and decrease latency. And with M3 Extremely, Mac Studio now drives as much as eight Professional Show XDRs on the full 6K decision. Mac Studio additionally affords a big selection of connectivity inside straightforward attain for execs, together with a 10Gb Ethernet port, an HDMI port, an SDXC card slot on the entrance to conveniently import photographs and video, together with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Constructed for Apple Intelligence
Mac Studio helps execs push the boundaries of what they will do, and Apple Intelligence elevates these experiences even additional. Writing is much more dynamic with Writing Instruments, which will help customers rewrite, proofread, or summarize — whether or not they’re responding to emails or utilizing summarization to draft an summary in seconds in apps like Scrivener. Execs can reduce pointless distractions with Precedence Notifications and use reside transcription in Notes to document and simply recap vital conferences. With new Siri enhancements, customers can transfer fluidly between spoken and typed requests to speed up duties all through their day, and Siri can reply hundreds of questions on Mac options and settings, with step-by-step directions like tips on how to mix PDF recordsdata in Preview. With entry to ChatGPT seamlessly built-in into Writing Instruments and Siri, customers can faucet into ChatGPT’s experience, to allow them to get issues performed even sooner and simpler. Customers can select to allow ChatGPT integration, and are in full management of when to make use of it and what data is shared with ChatGPT. Customers can even discover inventive new methods to specific themselves visually with Picture Playground, and drop their authentic picture proper into their paper, temper board, or Keynote presentation. Whether or not customers are researching their subsequent venture, enhancing a video, creating new designs, or making ready for his or her subsequent lecture, these new instruments will assist execs be much more productive.
Designed to guard customers’ privateness at each step, Apple Intelligence makes use of on-device processing, that means that most of the fashions that energy it run solely on system. For requests that require entry to bigger fashions, Non-public Cloud Compute extends the privateness and safety of Mac into the cloud to unlock much more intelligence. When utilizing Non-public Cloud Compute, customers’ information is rarely saved or shared with Apple; it’s used solely to meet their request.
macOS Sequoia: An Unequalled Expertise
macOS Sequoia completes the brand new Mac Studio expertise with a number of thrilling options, together with iPhone Mirroring, which permits customers to wirelessly work together with their iPhone, its apps, and notifications immediately from their Mac.3 Execs can now transfer recordsdata, photographs, and movies between iPhone and Mac as simply as they will drag and drop between apps on Mac. Simpler window tiling means customers can keep organized with a window structure that works finest for them. The all-new Passwords app offers handy entry to passwords, passkeys, and different credentials, all saved in a single place. And customers can apply stunning built-in backgrounds for video calls, which embody quite a lot of coloration gradients and system wallpapers, or add their very own photographs. Safari, the world’s quickest browser,4 now surfaces related data on websites in Highlights; summarizes articles within the redesigned Reader; retains movies entrance and middle in a brand new Video Viewer; and lets customers disguise distracting objects with Distraction Management. Gaming will get much more immersive with options like Personalised Spatial Audio and enhancements to Sport Mode, together with a breadth of thrilling titles, together with Cyberpunk 2077: Final Version by CD PROJEKT RED, Murderer’s Creed Shadows, and extra.
Subsequent month, macOS Sequoia 15.4 will make it simpler than ever to arrange the brand new Mac Studio with iPhone.5 By merely bringing iPhone near Mac, customers can shortly and conveniently check in to their Apple Account to get their recordsdata, photographs, messages, passwords, and extra on their new Mac Studio.
The Final Studio Setup
Mac Studio, along with Studio Show, empowers inventive customers to construct the studio of their goals. Studio Show completely pairs with Mac Studio with its expansive 27-inch 5K Retina show, 12MP Middle Stage digicam, studio-quality three-mic array, and six-speaker sound system with Spatial Audio. For customers engaged on HDR workflows, Professional Show XDR affords a 32-inch Retina 6K show with as much as 1600 nits of peak HDR brightness. Clients can even add matching Magic equipment — together with Magic Keyboard with Contact ID, Magic Trackpad, and Magic Mouse — that fantastically complement the elegant design of Mac Studio and Studio Show.
Higher for the Setting
The brand new Mac Studio is designed with the setting in thoughts. As a part of Apple 2030, the corporate’s bold objective to be carbon impartial throughout its whole carbon footprint by the top of this decade, Apple is transitioning to renewable electrical energy for its manufacturing, and investing in wind and photo voltaic tasks world wide to handle the electrical energy used to energy all Apple merchandise, together with Mac Studio. As we speak, all Apple services run on 100% renewable electrical energy — together with the info facilities that energy Apple Intelligence.
To realize Apple 2030, the corporate is designing merchandise with extra recycled and renewable supplies, which additional drives down the carbon footprint. Mac Studio options over 30 p.c recycled content material total, together with 100% recycled aluminum within the enclosure and 100% recycled uncommon earth parts in all magnets. Mac Studio makes use of far much less power and supplies than desktops in its class, and is freed from mercury, brominated flame retardants, and PVC. The packaging is solely fiber-based, bringing Apple nearer to its objective to take away plastic from all packaging by the top of 2025.6
Pricing and Availability
- Clients can pre-order the brand new Mac Studio beginning right this moment on apple.com/retailer and within the Apple Retailer app in 28 international locations and areas, together with the U.S. It’ll start arriving to prospects, and can be in Apple Retailer areas and Apple Licensed Resellers, beginning Wednesday, March 12.
- Mac Studio begins at $1,999 (U.S.) and $1,799 (U.S.) for training. Extra configure-to-order choices can be found at apple.com/retailer.
- Extra data on Studio Show, Professional Show XDR, and Magic equipment is out there at apple.com/store/buy-mac.
- Apple Intelligence is out there on all Mac fashions with M1 and later, in localized English for Australia, Canada, Eire, New Zealand, South Africa, the UK, and the U.S. Extra languages — together with French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese language (simplified), English (Singapore), and English (India) — can be accessible in April, with extra languages coming over the course of the yr, together with Vietnamese. Some options, functions, and providers might not be accessible in all areas or all languages.
- With Apple Commerce In, prospects can commerce of their present pc and get credit score towards a brand new Mac. Clients can go to apple.com/store/trade-in to see what their system is price.
- AppleCare+ for Mac offers unparalleled service and assist. This contains limitless incidents of unintentional injury, battery service protection, and 24/7 assist from the individuals who know Mac finest.
- Each buyer who buys immediately from Apple Retail will get entry to Private Setup. In these guided on-line classes, a Specialist can stroll them via setup, or deal with options that assist them profit from their new system. Clients can even study extra about getting began with their new system with a As we speak at Apple session at their nearest Apple Retailer.
- Clients within the U.S. who store at Apple utilizing Apple Card will pay month-to-month at 0 p.c APR once they select to take a look at with Apple Card Month-to-month Installments, they usually’ll get 3 p.c Every day Money again — all up entrance. Extra data — together with particulars on eligibility, exclusions, and Apple Card phrases — is out there at apple.com/apple-card/monthly-installments.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. As we speak, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower individuals with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 workers are devoted to creating the perfect merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Testing was performed by Apple in January and February 2025. See apple.com/mac-studio for extra data.
- Outcomes are in comparison with Mac Studio techniques with Apple M4 Max, 16-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 128GB of RAM, and 8TB SSD.
- Accessible on Mac computer systems with Apple silicon and Intel-based Mac computer systems with a T2 Safety Chip. See necessities on apple.com/macos/macos-sequoia. Some iPhone options (for instance, digicam and microphone) are usually not suitable with iPhone Mirroring.
- Testing was performed by Apple in August 2024. See apple.com/safari for extra data.
- Accessible subsequent month on macOS Sequoia 15.4 with iPhone and iPad operating iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, or a later model.
- Based mostly on retail packaging as shipped by Apple. Breakdown of U.S. retail packaging by weight. Adhesives, inks, and coatings are excluded from calculations of plastic content material and packaging weight.
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