Packed with up to 32 CPU cores, 80 graphics cores, and a maximum 512GB of RAM, the M3 Ultra is a monstrously powerful platform. It boasts 1.5x faster performance than the M2 Ultra

The Mac Studio with M4 Max will start at $1,999 with 36GB of RAM and 512GB of storage, while the M3 Ultra version will start at $3,999 with 96GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. Both are available for pre-order today and will launch on March 12.

Apple launches its new M3 Ultra processor: up to 32-core CPU, 80-core GPU, 512GB unified RAM: essentially 2 x M3 Max SoCs together, acting as one.

"M3 Ultra is the pinnacle of our scalable system-on-a-chip architecture, aimed specifically at users who run the most heavily threaded and bandwidth-intensive applications," Johny Srouji, Apple's senior vice president of hardware technologies,

Apple's Mac Studio compact desktop system is on a less frequent upgrade cycle than its laptops -- more frequent than the Mac Pro, though, which makes sense given the Pro's more commercial target audience -- but like all Apple computers,

Apple today unveiled the M3 Ultra chip, its fastest Mac chip yet. It is available in the new Mac Studio. The new M3 Ultra chip features up to

But the company took a bit of a strange approach to the update, giving an M4-series Max chip to the lower-end Studio but an M3 Ultra chip to the high-end model. These processors are both performance upgrades from the M2 Max and M2 Ultra,

Apple today announced M3 Ultra, the highest-performing chip it has ever created, offering the most powerful CPU and GPU in a Mac, double the Neural Engine cores, and the most unified memory ever in a personal computer.