Apple Unveils Mac Studio with M3 Ultra Chip: Doubling Performance and Introducing Thunderbolt 5 Connectivity

Apple has released a new Mac Studio featuring the M3 Ultra chip, designed for demanding professional workflows. * The M3 Ultra boasts a 32-core CPU (24 performance cores) and an 80-core GPU, configurable with up to 512 GB of unified RAM and 16 TB of SSD storage. * The base model Mac Studio features an M4 Max chip (14-core CPU and 32-core GPU), with configurations up to a 16/40-core M4 Max chip. * The M3 Ultra Mac Studio starts at $1,999 with 96 GB of unified memory and a 1 TB SSD; fully configured, it can reach $14,099. * The M3 Ultra offers nearly twice the performance of the M4 Max in multi-core CPU and GPU tasks. * It introduces Thunderbolt 5 connectivity, with each of the four ports having its own dedicated controller, supporting 120 Gbps. * New graphics features include Dynamic Caching, hardware-accelerated mesh shading, and ray tracing, accelerating GPU-based rendering up to 2.6 times compared to the M1 Ultra.