Apple’s Mac Studio gets an M2 Ultra and Max upgrade

The Mac Studio beneath the Studio Display on a wooden table.

The M1-powered Mac Studio. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge

Apple is updating its Mac Studio desktop system with M2 Max and M2 Ultra chips. The miniature desktop Mac Studio has the same design as last year’s M1-powered device but much more powerful processors inside. The updated Mac Studio will start at $1,999 and start shipping on June 13th.

M2 Ultra is the big news here, with Apple describing it as “a monster of a chip.” It’s essentially two M2 Max dies connected with Apple’s UltraFusion technology, with a 24-core CPU and up to a 76-core GPU that’s 30 percent faster than the M1 Ultra. Apple claims that a single system with this type of GPU can train ML workloads that discrete GPUs can’t handle due to memory constraints.

That’s because the M2 Ultra supports up to 192GB of unified memory, 50...