Apple Introduce New Mac Studio M4 With Thunderbolt 5

Explore the powerful features of Apple’s new Mac Studio M4 with Thunderbolt 5 for unparalleled performance.

The most powerful Mac ever produced, the new Mac Studio, with the M4 Max and the new M3 Ultra CPU, was unveiled by Apple today. With its small and silent design that fits neatly on a desk, the ultimate pro desktop offers revolutionary pro performance, wide connectivity (now with Thunderbolt 5), and additional features.

With its potent CPU, Apple’s cutting-edge graphics architecture, more unified memory, ultrafast SSD storage, and a quicker and more effective Neural Engine, Mac Studio can handle even the most demanding applications. For consumers switching from older Macs, it offers a significant performance gain over the prior version.

Its sophisticated GPU and up to 512GB of unified memory with M3 Ultra, the most ever in a personal computer, Mac Studio is a powerhouse for artificial intelligence (AI), able to run large language models (LLMs) with over 600 billion parameters entirely in memory. Additionally, it is designed for Apple Intelligence, a personal intelligence system that protects users’ privacy while revolutionizing how they work, communicate, and express themselves.The March 12 Mac Studio may be pre-ordered today.

” With an incredible level of horsepower in a small, quiet design that looks great on your desk, Mac Studio is a machine unto itself. With the M4 Max and M3 Ultra, support for half a terabyte of unified memory, up to 16TB of lightning-fast storage, and Thunderbolt 5 connectivity, we’re offering even more extreme performance with this new Mac Studio. The best professional desktop is, in fact, Mac Studio.

Mac Studio M4 Max

For customers that need to blaze through demanding workflows, such as video editors, colorists, developers, engineers, photographers, and creative pros, the new Mac Studio with M4 Max is the ideal option. It offers exceptional multithreaded CPU performance for demanding applications, as well as remarkable single-threaded CPU performance with the fastest CPU core in the world.

Mac Studio with M4 Max can execute on-device AI models very quickly because to its powerful Neural Engine, which is more than three times quicker than M1 Max, up to 16 core CPU, up to 40 core GPU, and more than half a terabyte per second of unified memory bandwidth. Up to 3.5 times faster than Mac Studio with M1 Max, Mac Studio with M4 Max can outperform the most potent 27-inch Intel-based iMac by up to 6.1 times.

For more fluid content production and gaming, the GPU in M4 Max also introduces Apple’s cutting-edge graphics architecture to Mac Studio for the first time. This architecture includes hardware-accelerated mesh shading, dynamic caching, and a second-generation ray-tracing engine.

Starting with 36GB of unified memory, Mac Studio with M4 Max supports up to 128GB, allowing users to perform anything from quickly and accurately filter through thousands of photographs to creating intricate compositions with hundreds of tracks, plug-ins, and virtual instruments that are all played in real time.

Additionally, Mac Studio’s performance is exceptional for filmmakers who can easily work with several streams of 4K ProRes with the robust Media Engine in M4 Max, which has two ProRes accelerators.

Mac Studio with M4 Max enables:

• Image processing in Adobe Photoshop can be up to 1.6 times faster than in Mac Studio with M1 Max and up to 2.9 times faster than in the 27-inch Core i9 iMac.
• Code compilation in Xcode can be up to 2.1 times faster than in Mac Studio with M1 Max and up to 3.1 times faster than in the 27-inch Core i9 iMac.
• Compressor’s ProRes transcode speed can be up to 1.2 times quicker than that of Mac Studio with M1 Max and up to 2.8 times faster than that of the 27-inch Core i9 iMac.
• Video processing performance in Topaz Video AI can be up to 1.6 times quicker than in Mac Studio with M1 Max and up to 5 times faster than in the 27-inch Core i9 iMac.

Mac Studio with M3 Ultra

Mac Studio with M3 Ultra raises the bar for demanding workflows. In applications that make use of large amounts of unified memory and high CPU and GPU core counts, it performs almost twice as fast as M4 Max.

Mac Studio with M3 Ultra outperforms the 16-core Intel Xeon W-based Mac Pro by 6.4 times and M1 Ultra by 2.6 times.One Mac Studio’s M3 Ultra has up to 32 CPU cores and 24 performance cores 50% more than any previous Ultra processor. The gadget also contains a 32-core Neural Engine for on-device AI and machine learning (ML), a high-bandwidth memory architecture with over 800GB/s of unified memory bandwidth, and a GPU with up to 80 cores, more than any Apple silicon chip.

Content and data may be stored locally with the 96GB of unified memory that comes with Mac Studio with M3 Ultra. This memory can be expanded to 512GB, the largest unified memory ever found in a personal computer, and up to 16TB of lightning-fast SSD storage. More than 12 hours of 8K ProRes video may fit on that amount of storage. Graphics operations such as GPU-based renderers are up to 2.6 times faster than Mac Studio with M1 Ultra because to the powerful graphics architecture, which also includes hardware-accelerated mesh shading and ray tracing, as well as Dynamic Caching.

M3 Ultra in Mac Studio allows

LM Studio’s enormous quantities of unified memory allow for up to 16.9 times faster token creation when utilizing an LLM with hundreds of billions of parameters than Mac Studio with M1 Ultra.

• The performance of Maxon Redshift’s scene rendering can be up to 2.6 times quicker than that of Mac Studio with M1 Ultra, and up to 6.4 times faster than that of the 16-core Intel-based Mac Pro with Radeon Pro W5700X.
• Oxford Nanopore MinKNOW can basecall DNA sequencing up to 1.1 times quicker than Mac Studio with M1 Ultra and 21.1 times faster than the 16-core Intel-based Mac Pro with Radeon Pro W5700X.
• Up to 4 times faster 8K video rendering in Final Cut Pro than the 16-core Intel-based Mac Pro with Radeon Pro W5700X and 1.4 times faster than Mac Studio with M1 Ultra.

Thunderbolt 5 for High-Bandwidth Accessories and Expansion

The new Mac Studio’s Thunderbolt 5 connectors can carry data at 120 Gb/s, three times faster than the previous generation, enabling quicker external storage, expansion chassis, and sturdy hub solutions. Thunderbolt 5 improves bandwidth and latency when connecting an external expansion chassis, which benefits PCIe expansion card users. M3 Ultra lets Mac Studio drive eight 6K Pro Display XDRs. A 10Gb Ethernet port, an HDMI port, an SDXC card slot on the front for quick photo and video import, as well as built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, are just a few of the many connectivity options that Mac Studio provides professionals.

Built for Apple Intelligence

Professionals use Mac Studio to push the limits of their abilities, and Apple Intelligence enhances those experiences even more. Apple Intelligence features for Mac Studio is the same as Mac Book Air.

The Ultimate Studio Setup

Creative people can create the studio of their dreams with Mac Studio and Studio Display. With its large 27-inch 5K Retina screen, 12MP Center Stage camera, studio-caliber three-mic array, and six-speaker sound system with Spatial Audio, Studio Display is the ideal complement to Mac Studio. Pro Display XDR provides a 32-inch Retina 6K screen with a maximum HDR brightness of 1600 nits for those working on HDR processes. The sleek Mac Studio and Studio Display may be paired with Magic accessories including the Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, and Magic Keyboard with Touch ID.

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