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Both Studio models also come with\u00a0nearly all the same ports. On the back, you\u2019ll find four 120Gbps Thunderbolt 5 ports, a 10Gbps Ethernet port, an HDMI 2.1 port, and a pair of 5Gbps USB-A ports. On the front, both Studios have a UHS-II SD card reader, but the Max comes with two 10Gbps USB-C ports, and the Ultra comes with two more 120Gbps Thunderbolt 5 ports.<\/p>\n

The Ultra\u2019s additional oomph extends to external display support. The M5 Max supports up to five external displays, and the M5 Ultra supports up to\u00a0eight<\/em>, though both come with caveats depending on the resolution and refresh rates you\u2019re using.<\/p>\n

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\n Display support details for the M5 Max and M5 Ultra Mac Studios.<\/p>\n

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\n Display support details for the M5 Max and M5 Ultra Mac Studios.<\/p>\n


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The M5 Max is a known quantity at this point, and Apple has been\u00a0shipping it since March<\/a> in the MacBook Pro<\/a>. It improved over the last-generation M4 Max by introducing new \u201csuper\u201d cores for the CPU and nudging the maximum memory bandwidth up from 546GB\/s to 614GB\/s. The number of GPU cores stayed the same (40), but new neural accelerators built into each GPU core helped improve its performance for ML\/AI-assisted technologies like MetalFX upscaling and frame generation.<\/p>\n

The M5 Ultra is a bigger departure for a few reasons. The first is that there was no M4 Ultra, so we\u2019re effectively hopping two processor generations despite only jumping a single product generation.<\/p>\n

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Apple M5 Ultra (low)<\/b><\/td>\n10S\/20P<\/td>\n64<\/td>\n96GB\/256GB<\/td>\n1,228.8GB\/s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apple M5 Ultra (high)<\/b><\/td>\n12S\/24P<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n96\/256GB\/512GB (planned)<\/td>\n1,228.8GB\/s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apple M3 Ultra (high)<\/b><\/td>\n24P\/8E<\/td>\n80<\/td>\n128GB\/256GB\/512GB<\/td>\n819.2GB\/s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apple M2 Ultra (high)<\/b><\/td>\n16P\/8E<\/td>\n76<\/td>\nUp to 192GB<\/td>\n819.2GB\/s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Apple M1 Ultra (high)<\/b><\/td>\n16P\/4E<\/td>\n32<\/td>\nUp to 128GB<\/td>\n819.2GB\/s<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n

The second is that the way the chip is built has actually changed quite a bit. The M1 Ultra, M2 Ultra, and M3 Ultra were all essentially a pair of Max chips strapped together using a high-speed interconnect to get most of the benefits of making one huge chip without all of the manufacturing difficulties of making one huge chip.<\/p>\n

The M5 Ultra is still basically a pair of M5 Max chips stitched together; that much is the same. The chip includes up to 12 super CPU cores, up to 24 P-cores, up to 80 GPU cores, 32 Neural Engine cores, two video decoding engines and four encoding engines, and a little over 1.2TB\/s (yes, that\u2019s TB with a T) of memory bandwidth. That\u2019s a neat doubling of all the M5 Max\u2019s major specs.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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