{"product_id":"apple-mac-studio-m3-ultra","title":"Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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. 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