M5 Ultra Mac Studio's GPU, AI performance keeps up with desktop graphics cards
The first reviews of Apple's new Macs are starting to surface, and so too are the benchmarks. With the M5 Ultra being Apple's newest high-performance chip, the Mac Studio update is of particular interest to those in the field of AI. If those first benchmarks are to be believed, the M5 Ultra is certainly as high-performance as ever.
- ▪The first reviews of Apple's new Macs are starting to surface, and so too are the benchmarks.
- ▪With the M5 Ultra being Apple's newest high-performance chip, the Mac Studio update is of particular interest to those in the field of AI.
- ▪If those first benchmarks are to be believed, the M5 Ultra is certainly as high-performance as ever.
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News M5 Ultra Mac Studio's GPU, AI performance keeps up with desktop graphics cards Malcolm Owen 0 e-mail BlueSky Mastodon X Facebook Reddit Mon Sep 21 2026, 10:23 AM EDT · 1 minute read Mac Studio The graphical and AI performance of the M5 Ultra in the new Mac Studio is on a par with graphics cards like the Nvidia RTX 5080, early benchmarks indicate. The first reviews of Apple's new Macs are starting to surface, and so too are the benchmarks. With the M5 Ultra being Apple's newest high-performance chip, the Mac Studio update is of particular interest to those in the field of AI. If those first benchmarks are to be believed, the M5 Ultra is certainly as high-performance as ever. To the level of some premium graphics cards.
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