Agentic workloads get own CPU; Apple puts frontier models on desks
Mac Studio M5 Ultra, and The Deploy Log for this week. Every price and claim read off the publisher's own page, with a call on each.
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Mac Studio M5 Ultra
DEPLOYif you run large LLMs on device
WHAT SHIPPEDMac Studio with M5 Ultra scales to a 36-core CPU, up to an 80-core GPU, and 512GB of unified memory with 1.2TB/s bandwidth, delivering up to 4.3x the peak AI compute performance of M3 Ultra and 9.8x more than M1 Ultra.
THE CATCHA cluster of four Mac Studio systems delivers up to 3x faster AI inference than a single system using Thunderbolt 5 and RDMA, creating a shared memory pool that loads the largest frontier-class open-weight models available today.
IF YOU RUNlocal AI models in LM Studio Bionic or need to run enormous LLMs entirely on device with complete privacy
SOURCEApple, Apple introduces new Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
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