Joeman2026-10-03 06:41:32Joeman says maxed-out M5 Ultra Mac Studio brings local text and image generation close to cloud speedTaiwanese YouTuber Joeman said his fully configured M5 Ultra Mac Studio, priced at NT$437,900, delivered striking local AI performance after a week of testing across benchmarks, video editing, gaming, and on-device model workloads. In his test results, local text generation and image generation ran close to cloud services, while video generation still lagged behind top cloud models. The machine he bought used a 36-core CPU, 80-core GPU, 256GB of unified memory, and 4TB of storage. Joeman also compared export times against an M4 Max MacBook Pro, showing the M5 Ultra cut Premiere export time from 6 minutes 27 seconds to 3 minutes 2 seconds. In AI tasks, he said a Qwen image model produced the same prompt in 27 seconds on the M5 Ultra, versus 49 seconds on an M3 Max and 3 minutes 4 seconds on an M2 Max. A 5-second video generated locally still took 6 minutes, compared with 5 minutes 7 seconds on cloud Wan 2.2 and 3 minutes 52 seconds on Kling 3.0. Joeman said the biggest value of the machine is keeping sensitive data on-device, and argued local and cloud computing will coexist with different roles.350
Apple2026-08-25 15:21:23Apple unveils M5 Ultra, says AI peak compute reaches 4.5x M3 UltraApple on Aug. 25 introduced the M5 Ultra, a new high-end chip the company said is the most powerful in its lineup to date, with a clear focus on AI computing and graphics performance. According to Apple’s newsroom announcement, the chip debuts exclusively in the new Mac Studio released the same day. The M5 Ultra marks the first quad-die design in the M-series. Apple said it combines two dual-die M5 Max chips through its UltraFusion packaging technology, delivering more than 4.4TB/s of inter-die bandwidth and over six times the connection density of the prior generation. The chip can scale up to a 36-core CPU, made up of 12 super cores and 24 performance cores, with Apple claiming up to 1.25x faster single-threaded performance and up to 1.3x faster multi-threaded performance than the M3 Ultra. On the graphics side, the M5 Ultra supports up to an 80-core GPU, with each core equipped with a Neural Accelerator. Apple said peak AI GPU compute is up to 4.5x that of the M3 Ultra and more than 6x higher than the M1 Ultra, while graphics performance is up to 40% faster than M3 Ultra. The chip also includes a 32-core Neural Engine, up to 512GB of unified memory, and 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth. Mac Studio models with M5 Ultra start at $5,499, with shipments scheduled to begin on Sept. 22.1030
