Introduction Apple mac Studio M2 max and M2 Ultra 2023 review !

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The 2023 Apple Mac Studio is one of those updates that would be easy to discount in passing. Its oversized Mac mini chassis, all built from recycled aluminium, might look pretty but nothing has changed since it was first announced in 2022. Yet it’s probably more interesting – for a certain type of person – than anything else Apple has announced this year. And, yes, that includes the Apple Vision Pro.

That’s because this year, it has been upgraded with Apple’s high-end M2 Ultra processor – an absolute monster of a chip that, Apple says, doubles the performance of the M1 Ultra. This is a chip that delivers 24 CPU cores, up to 76 GPU cores and a 32-core count for its Neural engine for a significant boost to overall performance.

As with last year’s Mac Studio, the 2023 version is available in a number of different flavours and the performance level will be determined by the processor you choose.

You can either buy the Mac Studio with a 12-core M2 Max chip or the 24-core M2 Ultra, and within these two base models, there are various other options as to the number of GPU cores you can have. Naturally, you can also specify how much unified memory and SSD storage you want as well.


With the M2 Max Mac Studio, for instance, you can choose either a 30-core or a 38-core GPU, backed by either 32GB, 64GB or 128GB of RAM and up to an 8TB SSD. The M2 Ultra model, on the other hand, can be specified with either a 60- or 76-core GPU, backed by 64GB, 128GB or 192GB of RAM and (again) up to 8TB of SSD storage. The M2 Max comes with a 16-core Neural Engine while the M2 Ultra features a 32-core Neural Engine

Now, you might have noticed a bit of a pattern developing over the previous paragraph or two – with the M2 Ultra all the numbers are precisely double those of M2 Max – and the explanation for this is fairly straightforward: the M2 Ultra is, essentially, two M2 Max chips stuck together. These are able to talk to each other over a 2.5TB/sec data link, a technology Apple calls UltraFusion.

The only other differences of significance between the M2 Max and M2 Ultra Mac Studio are the speed of the front-facing Thunderbolt ports (10Gbits/sec vs 40Gbits/sec) and the number of external displays supported (up to five versus up to eight, respectively).

The Mac Studio might look like a fat Mac mini but the target market is completely different. The Studio is a desktop computer aimed at digital creatives who need more horsepower than your average desktop user; it’s a professional tool, certainly at the top end of its power range, and it is priced accordingly.

With that in mind, it’s probably not surprising to find that the price of the Apple Mac Studio starts at a relatively high £2,099 with 32GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD. That’s not super silly money but, take note: this is only for the M2 Max model. If you want the M2 Ultra Mac Studio, your options start at £4,199 (64GB and 1TB) and that price can rise as high as £8,999 for the 76-core GPU model with 192GB of RAM and 8TB of SSD storage. I was sent a mid-weight M2 Ultra model to test for this review with 128GB of RAM and a 4TB SSD. This model costs £6,999.

There isn’t anything else that we regularly review that comes with this much raw power on tap, so it’s quite a challenge to pick a rival from products we’ve already reviewed. The closest machines we’ve tested in terms of raw power are high-powered gaming laptops such as this year’s Asus ROG Strix Scar 16 and Alienware M16 AMD machines and those are a long way behind the M2 Ultra Max Studio when it comes to raw computing power.

The most natural rivals are desktop workstation computers from the likes of HP, Dell and Armari, based on Intel’s Xeon and AMD’s Threadripper Pro CPUs. These PCs tend to be bigger and more power-hungry but the flip side is they offer far more flexibility and potential raw power with higher core counts and clock speeds, plus the ability to upgrade RAM and add PCIe expansion cards.

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