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Apple Reveals High-End Mac Studio, Display, Powered With M1 Ultra

Nathan Jolly | 09 Mar 2022

Apple has introduced the Mac Studio and Studio Display, a new Mac desktop that Apple calls “a breakthrough in personal computing”.

The machine is powered by either M1 Max or the newly revealed M1 Ultra, and is built for hefty tasks, such as rendering 3D animation, and playing back 18 streams of ProRes video.

The Studio Display features an expansive 27-inch 5K Retina display, a 12MP Ultra Wide camera with Centre Stage, and a high-fidelity six-speaker sound system with Spatial Audio.

It features the A13 Bionic chip, has over 14.7 million pixels, 600 nits of brightness, and support for over 1 billion colours.

“We couldn’t be more excited to introduce an entirely new Mac desktop and display with Mac Studio and Studio Display,” said Greg Joswiak, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.

“Mac Studio ushers in a new era for the desktop with unbelievable performance powered by M1 Max and M1 Ultra, an array of connectivity and a compact design that puts everything users need within easy reach. And Studio Display — with its stunning 5K Retina screen, along with the best combination of camera and audio ever in a desktop display — is in a class of its own.”

Mac Studio is a mighty little box, sitting at just 19.7 square centimetres, with a height of 9.5 cm.

It features an innovative thermal design, with double-sided blowers, precisely placed airflow channels, and over 4,000 perforations on the back and bottom – all necessary to cool the high-performance chips. Apple also promises it’ll be whisper quiet, despite all the cooling.

It offers “more unified memory than any other Mac, and new capabilities that no other desktop can achieve,” according to Apple, thanks to the company’s new M1 Ultra. It features up to 64GB of unified memory on systems with M1 Max, and up to 128GB of unified memory on systems with M1 Ultra.

The SSD in Mac Studio delivers up to 7.4GB/s of performance and a capacity of up to 8TB.

M1 Ultra

M1 Ultra features a 20-core CPU with 16 high-performance cores and four high-efficiency cores, delivering 90 per cent higher multithreaded performance than the fastest available 16-core PC desktop chip in the same power envelope, while using 100 fewer watts, running quietly and sucking less energy.

M1 Built for high-end graphic functions, M1 Ultra has a 64-core GPU — 8x the size of M1. Memory bandwidth is 800GB/s, more than 10x the latest PC desktop chip, and can be configured with 128GB of unified memory.

This is mighty, considering the top-end PC graphics cards max out at 48GB.

According to Apple: “M1 Ultra builds on M1 Max and features the all-new UltraFusion architecture that interconnects the die of two M1 Max chips, creating a system on a chip (SoC) with unprecedented levels of performance and capabilities, and consisting of 114 billion transistors, the most ever in a personal computer chip.”

Mac Studio Powered by M1 Max

Up to 2.5x faster CPU performance than the fastest 27-inch iMac with 10-core processor.
Up to 50 per cent faster CPU performance than Mac Pro with a 16-core Xeon processor.
Up to 3.4x faster graphics performance than the 27-inch iMac, and over 3x faster than Mac Pro with its most popular graphics card.
Up to 7.5x faster than the 27-inch iMac, and up to 3.7x faster than 16-core Mac Pro when transcoding video.

Mac Studio Powered by M1 Ultra

Up to 3.8x faster CPU performance than the fastest 27-inch iMac with 10-core processor.
Up to 90 per cent faster CPU performance than Mac Pro with 16-core Xeon processor.
Up to 60 per cent faster CPU performance than 28-core Mac Pro.
Up to 4.5x faster graphics performance than the 27-inch iMac, and up to 80 per cent faster than the fastest Mac graphics card available today.
Up to 12x faster than the 27-inch iMac, and up to 5.6x faster than 28-core Mac Pro when transcoding video.