Apple’s ultracompact Mac mini just got an upgrade, with the all-new M6 and powerful M5 Pro, that promises to deliver a dramatic boost in performance and even more versatility in its desktop design.
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The Mac mini with M6 can now help you power through everything, ranging from the latest AI workflows to productivity tasks and creative projects, offering the world’s fastest single-threaded performance with its 12-core CPU so that everything will feel extra responsive.
Alongside the 12-core CPU, is the first-ever Neural Accelerators in each core, which provides up to 4x faster AI performance and 2x faster graphics than the Mac mini with M4, and the all-new Dual 16-core Neural Engine, that delivers up to 2x faster performance than the previous generation.
You can also enjoy multitasking at a much faster rate, thanks to its higher memory bandwidth of up to 170GB/s.
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Redefining what’s possible on a small desktop, the Mac mini with M5 Pro enables you to easily take on demanding professional workflows like app development, video rendering and scientific simulations.
Featuring up to an 18-core CPU with remarkable multithreaded performance and up to a 20-core GPU with an enhanced shader core and third-generation ray tracing for complex work in 3D design, VFX, and game development, the Mac mini M5 Pro is also able to deliver significant gains in AI compute for you to tackle more advanced AI workflows like photo and video upscaling, and running large diffusion models at faster speeds.
Together with its support of up to 64GB of unified memory with 307GB/s of memory bandwidth, you can run even larger local AI models, work with complex 3D scenes, edit ProRes RAW files, and load large custom datasets for research.
In addition to its ability to support Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 6, both the Mac mini with M6 and M5 Pro comes to life with the upcoming macOS 27, which will include the more capable personal assistant, Siri AI, Apple Intelligence features across everyday apps, and an expansive set of improvements to make Mac eve more responsive and reliable.
Mac mini with M6 starts at $1,299 and the Mac mini with M5 Pro starts at $2,499. Both will be available for order soon online at apple.com and through the Apple Store app.
Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
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Having been at the forefront of high-performance AI computing, Apple’s Mac Studio gets an upgrade with the M5 Max and M5 Ultra, the tech giant’s most powerful silicon ever, giving you access to frontier-class AI models right at your fingertips.
M5 Max features phenomenal on-device AI compute that is up to 3.9x faster in AI performance than the previous generation, while the M5 Ultra is able to achieve up to 4.3x the peak AI compute performance of the M3 Ultra.
As a powerful platform for the rich ecosystem of tools AI researchers and developers rely on every day, the Mac Studio provides a brand-new framework for building, running and deploying AI models on Apple silicon. It provides an optimised architecture too, which allows developers to deploy full-scale LLMs locally and bring their own custom models into their apps.
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Ideal for musicians, photographers, software engineers and designers who are pushing real-time 3D and motion graphics, the Mac Studio with M5 Max delivers a huge boost in performance, thanks to its 18-core CPU with 5 super cores and 12 performance cores to compile code even faster.
This means that you can expect a boost in graphics-intensive tasks like game development with higher frame rates and more complex scene geometry, as well as the ability to accelerate complex workflows.
The inclusion of third-generation hardware-accelerated ray tracing also helps to deliver faster, more realistic lighting, reflections, and shadows across professional 3D, VFX, and design workflows.
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If you’re a professional who often has to tackle the most extreme workloads, then the Mac Studio with M5 Ultra is the pro desktop you’re looking for.
Taking performance to an entirely new level, the Mac Studio with M5 Ultra enables you to push the limits of what you can accomplish on a single machine to deliver the highest levels of performance ever — filmmakers can colour-grade uncompressed 8K footage in real time, VFX artists can render complex simulations, and data scientists can now train local AI models on expansive datasets.
Featuring an up-to-80-core GPU, which also happens to be the most powerful Apple silicon GPU ever, you’ll be getting up to 4.3x the peak AI compute performance compared to the M3 Ultra, as well as up to 1.8x faster graphics than the previous generation, which allows for smoother real-time 3D rendering for VFX workflows.
AI coding agents will be able to process significantly faster too, alongside image generation tools that can render creations in an instant, and enterprise teams can now cluster multiple systems to scale performance to new heights.
