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MacStories · Federico Viticci ·

Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) with 256 GB of RAM review: a dream machine to run local AI agents and a massive leap over M3 Ultra for prompt processing and generation

For the past few days, I've been testing the (currently) top-of-the-line M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256 GB of RAM.

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Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) with 256 GB of RAM review: a dream machine to run local AI agents and a massive leap over M3 Ultra for prompt processing and generation

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Engadget: Apple Mac Studio (M5 Ultra) review: top benchmark scores, but it costs around twice as much as the M5 Max model without delivering nearly double the performance

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