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M5 Ultra is the top chip in Apple's M5 family, introduced in August 2026 with the new Mac Studio alongside M5 Max. Configurable with up to 512GB of unified memory, it has become a popular choice for running large AI models locally and is often compared with NVIDIA's DGX Spark.

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About M5 Ultra

M5 Ultra is an AI chip by Apple. M5 Ultra is the top chip in Apple's M5 family, introduced in August 2026 with the new Mac Studio alongside M5 Max. Configurable with up to 512GB of unified memory, it has become a popular choice for running large AI models locally and is often compared with NVIDIA's DGX Spark. This page tracks 143 recent news stories about M5 Ultra, curated from 30+ sources and updated every 15 minutes.

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GMKtec M5 Ultra Ryzen 7 Gaming Mini PC Sees a Sudden Price Collapse, Dropping to a Record Low on Amazon

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Apple Discontinues Mac Pro — What Pros Need to Know About What Comes Next (M5 Ultra Mac Studio!?)
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Apple Discontinues Mac Pro — What Pros Need to Know About What Comes Next (M5 Ultra Mac Studio!?)

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Mac Studio M5 Ultra 64-Core vs 80-Core GPU for Local AI: Is the Upgrade Worth It?
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Mac Studio M5 Ultra 64-Core vs 80-Core GPU for Local AI: Is the Upgrade Worth It?

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NVIDIA’s 9-Year-Old Tesla V100 Still Packs Some Inference Muscle; 4 GPUs On An NVLink Board Can Outperform M5 Ultra, DGX Spark In Various AI Benchmarks By Up To 230%

Didn't realize the V100 were still so fast, anyone have first hand experience on these?

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As Apple readies its 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studio for local AI, the M5 Max workstation drops by $200
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As Apple readies its 512GB M5 Ultra Mac Studio for local AI, the M5 Max workstation drops by $200

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Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: The Mac Pro Isn’t Dead, After All
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Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: The Mac Pro Isn’t Dead, After All

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Mac Studio M5 Max vs M5 Ultra for Local AI: Do You Really Need 512 GB?
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Mac Studio M5 Max vs M5 Ultra for Local AI: Do You Really Need 512 GB?

by Joe T. Santhanavanich — 1.2 TB/s bandwidth, Neural Accelerators and reported tokens/s explained | From 36 GB to 512 GB | Which One Should You Buy?

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M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: Goodbye Claude?
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M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: Goodbye Claude?

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Meta Says Muse Spark Open Runs on Your Desktop. That Desktop Starts at $43,196.
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Meta Says Muse Spark Open Runs on Your Desktop. That Desktop Starts at $43,196.

by Chinmay Shringi — Apple measured 36.73 tokens per second on four M5 Ultra Macs. Hosted costs $1.25 and $4.25. Here is the break even math before you buy.

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GLM-5.3-Flash with gmlx on an M5 Ultra: 2.4× faster prompt reading, after two fixes
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GLM-5.3-Flash with gmlx on an M5 Ultra: 2.4× faster prompt reading, after two fixes

by JV — TL;DR

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M5 Ultra Mac Studio Hits 108 Local AI Tokens per Second
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M5 Ultra Mac Studio Hits 108 Local AI Tokens per Second

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Apple debuts M5 Ultra with 80-core GPU and 36-core CPU
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Apple debuts M5 Ultra with 80-core GPU and 36-core CPU

Apple's new M5 Ultra chip boasts an 80-core GPU and delivers four times faster AI performance compared to the M3 Ultra, marking it as Apple's most powerful processor yet.

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Apple announces new $899 M6 Mac mini and $5,499 M5 Ultra Mac Studio
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Apple announces new $899 M6 Mac mini and $5,499 M5 Ultra Mac Studio

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The $19,000 Mac Break-Even for Meta’s 816B Model
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The $19,000 Mac Break-Even for Meta’s 816B Model

by MohamedAbdelmenem — Two M5 Ultra nodes cost $556 a month. You need 60,164 queries before local beats the API.

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Meta Releases Muse Spark Open: 816B Open-Weight MoE With 1M Context
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Meta Releases Muse Spark Open: 816B Open-Weight MoE With 1M Context

Meta released Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter open-weight MoE model with 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context. It leads open models on MCP-Atlas and runs on 2 M5 Ultra Mac Studios. The...

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Apple Silicon for AI and ML in 2026: The Complete Buyer’s Guide to M6 vs M5 Ultra vs M5 Max vs M4…
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Apple Silicon for AI and ML in 2026: The Complete Buyer’s Guide to M6 vs M5 Ultra vs M5 Max vs M4…

by Aditya Inamdar — The cheapest Mac Apple sells beats the most expensive one at single-core CPU, magnetic mask, and AI prompt processing.

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Can the M5 Ultra Really Rival Nvidia for Local AI? What the Benchmarks Show
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Can the M5 Ultra Really Rival Nvidia for Local AI? What the Benchmarks Show

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M5 Ultra 256 running GLM 5.3 Flash 68.8 tok/s

Running oQ4e+MTP on oMLX 0.7.0, with still more to optimize. Prefill is 1,878 toks. I saw some other benchmarks below what id expect so i figured I would share.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is M5 Ultra?

M5 Ultra is M5 Ultra is the top chip in Apple's M5 family, introduced in August 2026 with the new Mac Studio alongside M5 Max. Configurable with up to 512GB of unified memory, it has become a popular choice for running large AI models locally and is often compared with NVIDIA's DGX Spark.

What is the latest news about M5 Ultra?

As of today, there are 143 recent stories about M5 Ultra. Recent headlines include: GMKtec M5 Ultra Ryzen 7 Gaming Mini PC Sees a Sudden Price Collapse, Dropping to a Record Low on Amazon; Mac Studio M5 Max vs M5 Ultra for Local AI: Do You Really Need 512 GB?; Apple announces new $899 M6 Mac mini and $5,499 M5 Ultra Mac Studio. Updated every 15 minutes.

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