The Apple Mac Studio is a small-form-factor workstation designed by Apple Inc. It is one of four desktop computers in the Mac lineup, sitting above the consumer-range Mac Mini and iMac, and positioned below the Mac Pro. The Mac Studio is available in two configurations: M2 Max and M2 Ultra.
The M2 Max configuration features a 12-core CPU with 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, a 30-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine. It has a memory bandwidth of 400GB/s and comes with 32GB unified memory, which can be configured to 64GB or 96GB. The storage capacity of the M2 Max configuration is 512GB SSD, which can be configured to 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, or 8TB. The M2 Max configuration supports simultaneous support for up to five displays: four displays with 6K resolution at 60Hz over Thunderbolt and one display with 4K resolution at 60Hz over HDMI.
The M2 Ultra configuration features a 24-core CPU with 16 performance cores and 8 efficiency cores, a 60-core GPU, and a 32-core Neural Engine. It has a memory bandwidth of 800GB/s and comes with 64GB unified memory, which can be configured to 128GB or 192GB. The storage capacity of the M2 Ultra configuration is 1TB SSD, which can be configured to 2TB, 4TB, or 8TB. The M2 Ultra configuration supports simultaneous support for up to eight displays: eight displays with up to 4K resolution at 60Hz, six displays with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz, and three displays with up to 8K resolution at 60Hz.
Both configurations come with Thunderbolt™4 digital video output that supports native DisplayPort output over USB‑C and HDMI display video output that supports one display with up to 8K resolution at 60Hz or 4K resolution at up to 240Hz. They also have built-in speakers, a headphone jack that supports high-impedance headphones, four Thunderbolt™4 ports with support for Thunderbolt™4 (up to 40Gb/s), DisplayPort, USB4 (up to 40Gb/s), USB3.1 Gen2 (up to 10Gb/s), two USB-A ports (up to 5Gb/s), an HDMI port, a 10Gb Ethernet port (Nbase-T Ethernet with support for 1Gb, 2.5Gb, 5Gb and 10Gb Ethernet using RJ-45 connector), Wi-Fi6E (802.11ax) and Bluetooth®5.3 wireless technology, an SDXC card slot (UHS-II), and a headphone jack on the front panel of the M2 Max configuration that also has two USB-C ports (up to 10Gb/s) while the front panel of the M2 Ultra configuration has two Thunderbolt™4 ports (up to 40Gb/s) instead of USB-C ports. ¹
The dimensions of both configurations are identical: height: 3.7 inches (9.5 cm); width: 7.7 inches (19.7 cm); depth: 7.7 inches (19.7 cm); weight: 5.9 pounds (2.7 kg) for the M2 Max configuration and 7.9 pounds (3.6 kg) for the M2 Ultra configuration.
The Mac Studio is available in silver finish and runs on Apple’s latest chip – Apple M2 Max or Apple M2 Ultra depending on the configuration you choose.
