Apple’s most powerful desktop just got a serious performance upgrade, but so did its price tag.

The company refreshed its Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra chip options, starting at $2,499. Both models are built around a genuine leap in on-device AI performance rather than the usual incremental bumps.

So what exactly changed inside the new Mac Studio?

Starting with the M5 Max, it has an 18-core CPU (6 super cores + 12 performance cores), paired with a GPU with up to 40 cores, each with a built-in Neural Accelerator. That’s some serious graphical power for heavy users. Memory tops out at 128GB, with bandwidth reaching 614GB/s, which Apple says…

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