I would never say that, but the Mac studio $ 14,000 from Apple is an absolute flight, a real diamond in the rough

The iteration 2025 of the Mac Studio marks a new era in personal IT for Apple because it pushes the limits of what can be achieved, using what is essentially a larger version of the next Intel calculation unit (NUC).

I opposed its high -end version in full fatty, the M3 Ultra with an SSD of 16 TB and 512 GB of RAM in competition to have an approximate idea of the good deal that it is. Unsurprisingly, he easily competes with some of the best workstation PCs in the world.

There is a trio of Threadripper platforms, seven Xeon work stations (out of three generations) and to make good measurement, the magnificent figures of Nvidia and three of Apple PCs, the Mac Mini (M4 Pro), the Mac Pro (M2 Ultra) and a less capable version of the Mac Studio (M4 Max).

The entire table is at the end of this article. Note that some cells are empty because I simply do not have the information at hand (for example, the size of certain workstations, the performance of the figures, etc.).

Credit where the credit is due, Apple managed to deliver something that I did not expect it to do as soon as it is: 512 GB of unified memory in a computer.

This stroke of genius meant to move the comparison with Intel Xeon and AMD Threadripper Pro systems, much more expensive professional platforms compared to AMD Ryzen and Intel Core platforms.

In addition to zero on the vertical workstation, he also firmly signals Apple’s ambitions to be a major player on the local local AI market.

(Is worth checking my article published in June 2023 where I suggested that the Mac Studio would replace the Mac Pro (and make the suppliers of nervous PCs).

I analyzed the prices of these systems (using the most recent data I have found) and there are not two ways to say it.

A good deal of $ 14,000 if you are after the memory

The Apple Mac Studio Ultra, even more than $ 14,000, is a good deal if you are looking for as much system memory as possible, at $ 28 per Go.

It is a little less than Puget systems and almost a third of what you would pay for a Mac Mini Maxe (or half of the Apple Mac Pro with its 192 GB Chétif).

Most importantly, it is good, much cheaper than Dell or HP; It turns out that the Windows workstations with half a report, are not cheap.

Remember that Apple uses a unified memory that has a much higher bandwidth (800 GB / S) than DDR5 memory (even on eight memory modules).

It offers the type of performance you expect from an integrated GPU; as Patrick Kennedy of Servethehome The said: “The cost is high in the context of a workstation, but it is cheap when you compare it to the cost of NVIDIA by GO of memory”.

Do not forget either that I configured this workstation with an on -board storage of 16 TB; No other major player has access to this type of storage, unless you use Raid-0 on several much smaller SSDs.

There is also the fact that it is delivered with 10gbe LAN by default as well as Thunderbolt 5, a data transfer technology not available on any other workstation at the time of writing, which, in due course, will open the way to innovative external devices.

I also examined 3 other composite measures, all by looking at the performance of the processor (based on the popular geekbench 6 *) and without surprise, Apple has excelled in the three: geekbench point by dollar, geekbench point by nucleus and geekbench point by volume.

M4 devices (Mac Mini and Mac Studio) had the cheapest performance per $, about $ 0.20, almost 1 / 8th of the cheap (HP G4).

It also had the highest performance per nucleus (1623, 5x faster than the slowest processor, a Intel Xeon) and the highest performance per unitary volume (more than 140x compared to the worst entry).

GPU details remain a mystery

The big unknown remains official GPU measures because it is difficult to assess Apple’s graphic performance on different systems on chip, because Apple does not disclose additional data beyond the basic numbers.

For the sake of simplicity, I chose the generation ADA NVIDIA RTX 2000 as default card – as far as possible – because it was the cheapest professional graphics card provided with 16 GB of RAM. A single input used the RTX 4000 ADA more expensive generation with 20 GB of RAM.

Technological publication, Techpowerupbelieves that the RTX 2000 AG should be slightly slower than an RTX 3060.

The Apple M3 ultra scores just under 130,000 points on the Popular OpenCl Geekbench testsIt is 50% faster than RTX 2000 AG, so for a more balanced comparison, readers may want to replace a more powerful (and costly) card such as the ADA NVIDIA 5000 generation.

* Geekbench 6 inputs are unfortunately not averaged. So I chose what I considered the median on the first page of each processor. Your mileage can vary.

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AMD Zen 5, Zen 5c, Zen 4 (TRP), OEM, CPU with socket
Header cell – column 0	Price	Processor	Geekbench 6	Gpu	OpenCl	RAM (GB)	Storage (TB)	Thunderbolt	Lan	Height (mm)	Width (mm)	Depth (mm)	Volume in L	Weight (kg)	Price by Go / Ram	RAM / L	GB6 / $	GB6 / Core	GB6 / L
Avadirect Xeon Gold 6338	$ 9,587	32	10419	RTX2000E AG	75949	512	16	4	10	Line 0 – cell 10	Line 0 – cell 11	Line 0 – cell 12	Line 0 – cell 13	?	$ 19	Line 0 – cell 16	$ 0.92	326	# Div / 0!
Avadirect Xeon Gold 6414U	$ 10,171	32	13062	RTX2000E AG	75949	512	16	4	10	Row 1 – cell 10	Row 1 – cell 11	Row 1 – cell 12	Row 1 – cell 13	?	$ 20	Row 1 – cell 16	$ 0.78	408	# Div / 0!
Titan W24 Octane W7-2495X	$ 10,419	24	13470	RTX2000 AG	85825	512	8	0	10	527	229	540	65.03	?	$ 20	8	$ 0.77	561	207
Nvidia figures	$ 3,000	20	Line 3 – cell 3	Line 3 – cell 4	Row 3 – cell 5	128	4	Line 3 – cell 8	Line 3 – cell 9	40	135	89	0.48	1	$ 23	266	# Div / 0!	0	Row 3 – cell 19
LENOVO P620 5965WX	$ 12,921	24	19935	RTX2000 AG	85825	512	4	0	1	440	165	460	33.40	24	$ 25	15	$ 0.65	831	597
Bizon G3000 W7-2595X	$ 13,573	26	15738	RTX4000 AG	261357	512	15	4	10	580	240	560	77.95	24.5	$ 27	7	$ 0.86	605	202
Apple Mac Studio Ultra	$ 14,219	32	28485	80	126747	512	16	5	10	95	197	197	3.69	3.64	$ 28	139	$ 0.50	890	7726
PUGET 7970X	$ 14,337	32	22977	RTX2000 AG	85825	512	16	3	10	546	239	475	61.93	?	$ 28	8	$ 0.62	718	371
Dell Precision 5860 W7-2595X	$ 15,522	26	15738	RTX2000 AG	85825	512	8	4	10	418	177	452	33.44	21.7	$ 30	15	$ 0.99	605	471
THINKMATE 7975WX	$ 15,781	32	24423	RTX2000 AG	85825	512	15	3	10	175	438	680	52.11	?	$ 31	10	$ 0.65	763	469
Lenovo P5 W7-2595X	$ 17,416	26	15738	RTX2000 AG	85825	512	8	0	1	440	165	453	32.89	19	$ 34	16	$ 1.11	605	479
Apple Mac Studio Max	$ 5,899	16	26010	40	110342	128	8	5	10	95	197	197	3.69	2.74	$ 46	35	$ 0.23	1626	7055
HP G4 W7-2595X	$ 24,643	26	15738	RTX2000 AG	85825	512	8	4	10	386	169	445	29.03	10	$ 48	18	$ 1.57	605	542
Apple Mac Pro	$ 11,799	24	21502	76	119712	192	8	4	10	529	218	450	51.89	17	$ 61	4	$ 0.55	896	414
Apple Mac Mini 4 Pro	$ 4,699	14	22715	20	65512	64	8	5	10	50	127	127	0.81	0.73	$ 73	79	$ 0.21	1623	28167

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