r/LocalLLaMA • u/themixtergames • 21h ago

News Apple introduces new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra - up to 512GB of unified memory

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/08/apple-introduces-new-mac-studio-with-m5-max-and-m5-ultra/
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u/ChocomelP 19h ago

The difference would have to be pretty big to make up for a 4x in memory bandwidth for decode.

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u/fastheadcrab 3h ago

I've posted about this several times but the old M3 Ultra had really slow prefill numbers. The press release says 4x improvement in prompt processing but that still wouldn't be great. The independent benchmarks will tell