Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
96GB RAM / 1TB SSD — 28-Core CPU 60-Core GPU
$3,999.00
Skip to product information
Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
$3,999.00
The Mac Studio with M3 Ultra fuses two M3 Max chips with Apple’s UltraFusion packaging, giving up to a 32-core CPU, an 80-core GPU and up to 512GB of unified memory with 819GB/s of memory bandwidth. It suits studios, developers and AI teams who want the huge-memory advantage of Apple’s Ultra tier without paying flagship-generation pricing.
Who it's for
- Developers, researchers and AI-driven startups running open-weight models locally, with up to 512GB of unified memory and no cloud GPU rental
- Video editors scrubbing and exporting multi-stream 8K ProRes timelines without proxies
- 3D and VFX artists rendering with Redshift, Octane and Blender on an 80-core GPU
- Music producers and audio post teams running deep plugin chains across dozens of tracks
Key features
- Up to 32-core CPU: 24 performance cores and 8 efficiency cores, more CPU cores than any previous Mac at launch.
- Up to 80-core GPU: Apple’s largest graphics chip at the time of release, with Dynamic Caching, mesh shading and hardware-accelerated ray tracing.
- Up to 512GB unified memory: enough to load local language models with several hundred billion parameters entirely in memory, with no cloud dependency.
- 819GB/s memory bandwidth: a high-bandwidth architecture purpose-built for AI inference and pro creative pipelines.
- 32-core Neural Engine: dedicated on-device machine learning acceleration for Core ML and Apple Intelligence.
- Extensive I/O: six Thunderbolt 5 ports total, two USB-A ports, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI 2.1 and an SDXC card slot.
- Drives up to eight external displays: from a single compact chassis.
- UltraFusion packaging: over 10,000 high-speed die-to-die connections deliver low-latency, near-monolithic performance from two linked chips.
Specifications
| Spec | Detail |
|---|---|
| Chip | Apple M3 Ultra (UltraFusion, two M3 Max dies) |
| CPU | 28-core standard, configurable to 32-core (24 performance + 8 efficiency cores) |
| GPU | 60-core standard, configurable to 80-core |
| Neural Engine | 32-core |
| Unified memory | 96GB standard, configurable to 256GB or 512GB |
| Memory bandwidth | Over 819GB/s |
| Storage configurations available | 1TB, 4TB, or 8TB SSD |
| Ports | 2x Thunderbolt 5 (front) + SDXC card slot, 4x Thunderbolt 5 + 2x USB-A (rear), HDMI 2.1, 10Gb Ethernet, 3.5mm headphone jack |
| Display support | Up to 8 external displays |
| Wireless | Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.3 |
| Dimensions | 7.7 x 7.7 x 3.7 inches |
| Weight | 8.0 lbs (3.6kg) |
| Operating system | macOS |
Good to know
- Memory capacity is the defining feature. macOS and Apple’s MLX framework are built to exploit unified memory, which helps memory-bound work such as local LLM inference.
- M3 Ultra is the previous-generation chip, not the newer M5 Ultra. If your workloads are memory-bound rather than raw-compute-bound, the extra headline speed of the latest chip matters less than having the memory to load the model.
- M3 Ultra has been shipping in production environments for well over a year, so its driver stack, thermal behaviour and macOS optimisation are proven.
- Every Mac includes Apple’s standard warranty coverage and a long software support window.
Choose the M3 Ultra Mac Studio when memory capacity matters more than the newest chip. For smaller workloads, a Mac mini or MacBook Pro with a Pro or Max chip is enough.