However, that would never say, but the Mac Studio of $ 14,000 of Apple is an absolute robbery, a true raw diamond

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

I entered its full and high -end version, the Ultra M3 with a 16 -TB SSD and 512 GB of RAM against the competition to have an approximate idea of how good a bargain is. As expected, it easily competes against some of the best workstation PC in the world.

There is a trio of Rigrips Threadripper, seven work stations of Xeon (in three generations) and, to a large extent, the magnificent Nvidia digits and three of the Apple’s own 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. Keep in mind that some cells are empty because I simply do not have the information by hand (for example, size of some work stations, digit performance, etc.).

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

That genius coup meant moving the comparison with Intel Xeon and AMD Threadripper Pro systems, much more expensive professional platforms compared to the AMD Ryzen and Intel Core.

In addition to concentrating on the vertical workstation, he also firmly points out Apple’s ambitions as an important player in the Local Ai al Rojo Live AI hardware market.

(It is worth reviewing my article published in June 2023 where I suggested that the Mac Studio would replace the Mac Pro (and put PC suppliers nervous).

I analyzed the prices of these systems (using the most up -to -date data I could find) and there are no way to put them.

A $ 14,000 bargain if you are looking for memory

The Apple Mac Studio Ultra, even at more than $ 14,000, is a bargain if you are looking for the largest amount of memory of the system as possible, at $ 28 per GB.

That is a little less than the Puget systems and almost a third of what I would pay for a maximum Mac Mini (or half of the Apple Mac Pro with its 192 GB RAM).

The most important thing is much, much cheaper than the tastes of Dell or HP; It turns out that Windows’s work stations with medium RAM of Terabyte are not cheap.

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

It offers the type of performance that would expect from an integrated GPU; as Patrick Kennedy de Servethehome This: “The cost is high in the context of a workstation, but it is cheap when compared to the cost of NVIDIA per GB of memory.”

Remember also that I have configured this workstation with storage on board 16 TB; No other important player has access to this type of storage unless Raid-0 resorts in multiple SSDs much smaller.

There is also the fact that it comes with 10gbe Lan by default, as well as Thunderbolt 5, a data transfer technology that is not available for any other workstation at the time of writing, which, in due time, will search the path for innovative external peripherals.

I also observed another 3 compound metrics, all looking at the processor’s performance (based on the popular Geekbench 6*) and, as expected, Apple stood out in all three: Geekbench Point per dollar, Geekbench Point per core and geekbench point by volume.

M4 (Mac Mini and Mac Studio) devices had the cheapest yield for $ 0.20, it is almost 1/8 of the most expensive (HP G4).

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

The details of the GPU are still a mystery

The great stranger remains the official GPU metrics, since it is difficult to measure the performance of Apple’s graphics in different chip systems, since Apple does not disclose additional data beyond the central numbers.

For the sake of simplicity, I chose the Ada Nvidia RTX 2000 generation as the default card, provided it is possible, since it was the cheapest professional graphics card that came with 16 GB of RAM. Only one input used the RTX 4000 ado generation with 20 GB of RAM.

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

Apple M3 ultra obtains just under 130,000 brands in the Popular OpenCl Geekbench testsThat is 50% faster than RTX 2000 AG, so for a more balanced comparison, readers may want to replace a more powerful (and expensive) card such as the NVIDIA RTX 5000 ADA generation.

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

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AMD Zen 5, Zen 5c, Zen 4 (TRP), Oem, Cpu plugged in
Header cell – column 0	Price	UPC	Geekbench 6	GPU	OPENCL	RAM (GB)	Storage (TB)	Ray	LAN	Height (mm)	Width (mm)	Depth (mm)	Volume in l	Weight (kg)	Price per GB/RAM	RAM/L.	GB6/$	GB6/Core	GB6/L.
Avadirect Xeon Gold 6338	$ 9,587	32	10419	RTX2000E AG	75949	512	16	4	10	Row 0 – Cell 10	Row 0 – Cell 11	Row 0 – Cell 12	Row 0 – Cellular 13	?	$ 19	Row 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 digits	$ 3,000	20	Row 3 – Cell 3	Row 3 – Cell 4	Row 3 – Cell 5	128	4	Row 3 – Cell 8	Row 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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