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Apple’s Mac Studio just got a major speed boost from two new models.

Here’s what you better know about these compact beasts.

Mac Studio M4 Max

It’s available for pre-order now.

This system starts with 36GB of unified memory and goes up to 128GB.

Thunderbolt 5, AI boost

Another big upgrade isThunderbolt 5.

Mac Studio M4 Max

It delivers transfer speeds up to 120 Gb/s.

That’s 3x faster than the previous generation.

I got a chance to see an impressive demo using the Autodesk Frame visual effects software.

Mac Studio M4 Max

The editor could easily add smoke to the scene and even control the size of the smoke.

The chip combines two 3-nanometer dies using Apple’s UltraFusion packaging for a total of 184 billion transistors.

You get up to a 32-core CPU with 24 performance cores.

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That’s the most CPU cores ever in a Mac.

In addition, the M3 Ultra packs up to an 80-core GPU and 32-core Neural Engine.

The unified memory bandwidth is a sky-high 800GB/s.

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That’s not storage, it’s memory!

The storage goes up to 16TB.

This system starts at $3,999 with 96GB of unified memory and goes on sale on March 12.

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The first involved creating graphics in a game using Cinema 4D.

Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to all Macs running theM4 chip.

The combination of the M4 Max chip and Thunderbolt 5 connectivity could raise the bar for the category.

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And we hope to test the Mac Studio with M3 Ultra to see just how powerful this chip is.

Even if it’s overkill for users like me.

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