Discover if Apple's M3 Ultra Mac Studio is worth the $5,500 price tag with our in-depth performance and value analysis.

This is the kind of computer that can’t be reviewed in a matter of days, so we’re just getting started.

As for the Intel and AMD comparisons, both companies' best high-end desktop CPUs like the Ryzen 9 9950X and Core Ultra 285K ...

The base model of the 2025 Mac Studio comes with a 14-core version of the M4 Max chip, a 32-core GPU, and a 16-core Neural Engine. By default, it comes with 36GB of memory and 512GB of storage, ...

The change in material accounts for the near-2-pound difference between the M4 Max (6.1 pounds) and M3 Ultra models (8.0 pounds). Inside that heatsink is a vapor chamber for additional cooling ...

As before, Apple offers a lower-end and a higher-end configuration of the Mac Studio. The lower-end model is pretty much what you expect: It gives you the same M4 Max processor Apple introduced in the ...

But when comparing the M4 Max and M3 Ultra models, there are a couple ... than the Max version because of its heatsink, which uses heavier but more-conductive copper instead of aluminum.