March 5, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
Apple unveils new Mac Studio, essentially 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 at this time introduced the brand new Mac Studio, essentially the most highly effective Mac ever made, that includes M4 Max and the brand new M3 Extremely chip. The last word professional desktop delivers groundbreaking professional efficiency, intensive connectivity now with Thunderbolt 5, and new capabilities in its compact and quiet design that may dwell proper on a desk. Mac Studio can deal with essentially 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 gives a giant increase in efficiency in comparison with the earlier era, and an enormous leap for customers coming from older Macs.
Mac Studio is a powerhouse for AI, able to working giant language fashions (LLMs) with over 600 billion parameters totally in reminiscence, because of its superior GPU and as much as 512GB of unified reminiscence with M3 Extremely — essentially the most ever in a private laptop. It’s additionally constructed for Apple Intelligence, the non-public intelligence system that transforms how customers work, talk, and specific themselves, whereas defending their privateness. The brand new Mac Studio is on the market to pre-order at this time, with availability starting March 12.
“The brand new Mac Studio is essentially the most highly effective Mac we’ve ever made,” stated John Ternus, Apple’s senior vp of {Hardware} Engineering. “An entire game-changer for professionals all over the world — 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, help 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 professionals, 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 essentially 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 help for as much as 128GB, so customers can do every part from sorting via 1000’s of pictures with pace 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 stage. It delivers practically 2x sooner efficiency than M4 Max in workloads that reap the benefits of excessive CPU and GPU core counts, and large 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 % greater than any earlier Extremely chip and essentially 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 could be configured as much as 512GB — essentially the most unified reminiscence ever in a private laptop — and as much as 16TB of ultrafast SSD storage, so content material and knowledge could 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 Ultimate 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 Growth
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, enlargement chassis, and highly effective hub options. For many who depend on PCIe enlargement playing cards for his or her workflows, Thunderbolt 5 permits customers to attach an exterior enlargement 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 simple attain for professionals, together with a 10Gb Ethernet port, an HDMI port, an SDXC card slot on the entrance to conveniently import pictures and video, together with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
Constructed for Apple Intelligence
Mac Studio helps professionals 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 may also 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. Professionals can reduce pointless distractions with Precedence Notifications and use dwell transcription in Notes to file and simply recap necessary 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 1000’s of questions on Mac options and settings, with step-by-step directions like methods to mix PDF information 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 executed 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 also can discover inventive new methods to precise themselves visually with Picture Playground, and drop their unique picture proper into their paper, temper board, or Keynote presentation. Whether or not customers are researching their subsequent mission, enhancing a video, creating new designs, or getting ready for his or her subsequent lecture, these new instruments will assist professionals be much more productive.
Designed to guard customers’ privateness at each step, Apple Intelligence makes use of on-device processing, which means that lots of the fashions that energy it run totally 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’ knowledge isn’t saved or shared with Apple; it’s used solely to satisfy 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 Professionals can now transfer information, pictures, 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 greatest 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 embrace a wide range of colour gradients and system wallpapers, or add their very own pictures. 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 conceal distracting gadgets with Distraction Management. Gaming will get much more immersive with options like Personalised Spatial Audio and enhancements to Recreation 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 information, pictures, 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. Prospects also can 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 Surroundings
The brand new Mac Studio is designed with the setting in thoughts. As a part of Apple 2030, the corporate’s formidable purpose to be carbon impartial throughout its total 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 all over the world to deal with the electrical energy used to energy all Apple merchandise, together with Mac Studio. Right now, all Apple amenities run on 100% renewable electrical energy — together with the info facilities that energy Apple Intelligence.
To attain 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 % recycled content material general, 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 vitality and supplies than desktops in its class, and is freed from mercury, brominated flame retardants, and PVC. The packaging is totally fiber-based, bringing Apple nearer to its purpose to take away plastic from all packaging by the top of 2025.6
Pricing and Availability
- Prospects can pre-order the brand new Mac Studio beginning at this time 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 clients, and can be in Apple Retailer places and Apple Approved Resellers, beginning Wednesday, March 12.
- Mac Studio begins at $1,999 (U.S.) and $1,799 (U.S.) for schooling. Extra configure-to-order choices can be found at apple.com/retailer.
- Extra data on Studio Show, Professional Show XDR, and Magic equipment is on the market at apple.com/store/buy-mac.
- Apple Intelligence is on the market 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 12 months, together with Vietnamese. Some options, functions, and providers is probably not accessible in all areas or all languages.
- With Apple Commerce In, clients can commerce of their present laptop and get credit score towards a brand new Mac. Prospects can go to apple.com/store/trade-in to see what their system is value.
- AppleCare+ for Mac gives unparalleled service and help. This contains limitless incidents of unintentional injury, battery service protection, and 24/7 help from the individuals who know Mac greatest.
- 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. Prospects also can be taught extra about getting began with their new system with a Right now at Apple session at their nearest Apple Retailer.
- Prospects within the U.S. who store at Apple utilizing Apple Card will pay month-to-month at 0 % APR once they select to take a look at with Apple Card Month-to-month Installments, they usually’ll get 3 % Each day Money again — all up entrance. Extra data — together with particulars on eligibility, exclusions, and Apple Card phrases — is on the market at apple.com/apple-card/monthly-installments.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Right now, 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 staff are devoted to creating the very best merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Testing was carried out by Apple in January and February 2025. See apple.com/mac-studio for extra data.
- Outcomes are in comparison with Mac Studio programs with Apple M4 Max, 16-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 128GB of RAM, and 8TB SSD.
- Obtainable 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 appropriate with iPhone Mirroring.
- Testing was carried out by Apple in August 2024. See apple.com/safari for extra data.
- Obtainable subsequent month on macOS Sequoia 15.4 with iPhone and iPad working iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, or a later model.
- Primarily based 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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