Apple Mac Studio “M1 Ultra” 20 CPU/48 GPU Specs

Slotted between the diminutive, inexpensive Mac mini and the massive, expandable Mac Pro, the Mac Studio represents Apple’s first foray into a mid-sized desktop system since the demise of the underappreciated Power Mac G4 Cube more than two decades earlier.

This specific stock high-end model — the Mac Studio “M1 Ultra” 20-Core CPU/48-Core GPU — features a 3.2 GHz Apple M1 Ultra processor — essentially two M1 Max processors interconnected with “UltraFusion” technology — with 20 cores (16 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores), a 48-core GPU, a 32-core Neural Engine, a “Media Engine” that provides hardware acceleration for video encoding and decoding, 64 GB of onboard RAM, and a 1 TB SSD that Apple reports is “not user accessible” (but that actually is removable).

Connectivity includes two Thunderbolt 4 ports and an SDXC (UHS-II) card slot on the front and four Thunderbolt 4 ports, two USB-A ports, an HDMI port, a 10-Gigabit Ethernet port, and a 3.5 mm headphone jack on the back. It has 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6), too.

By default, the Mac Studio models are configured without a display, keyboard, or mouse/trackpad, but numerous Apple and third-party options are available.