$4000 vs $7000
In addition to the new Mac Pro on SoC M2 Ultra, Apple yesterday introduced an updated Mac Studio PC , which is also available with the M2 Ultra. Now the new PC has appeared on the Apple website, which allows you to estimate the prices of different configurations.
Mac Studio with M2 Ultra starts at $4,000. This version has a 1TB SSD and 64GB of RAM. In addition, in this modification, the M2 Ultra has only 60 GPU cores out of 76 available. That is, the PC configuration is exactly the same as the base Mac Pro. The last one alone costs $7,000 .
Mac Studio with the same options costs almost half as much
Thus, Mac Studio not only deprives the Mac Pro of the title of a unique and unattainable productive PC in the Apple line, but also offers basically the same thing, but at almost half the price. Yes, the Mac Studio doesn’t have the same expansion slots as the Mac Pro, but not everyone needs them either. Especially against the background of the fact that even the new Mac Pro does not support discrete Radeon Pro graphics cards .
As for the base version of Mac Studio on the $2,000 M2 Max, it offers 12 CPU cores and 30 GPU cores. By the way, the same Mac Studio was previously available in a configuration with the M1 Ultra, and this platform should be noticeably more powerful than the M2 Max.
