Mac Studio (2022)

The 2020 Mac Studio is a small form factor workstation designed and developed by Apple. It is a pro-oriented combination of Apple's consumer small form-factor workstation Mac Mini and the professional workstation server Mac Pro. It is conjuable to an Apple M1 Max or Apple M1 Ultra processor. It is accompanied by the Studio Display.

Features
The M1 Max Mac Studio has a 10-core CPU with 8 performance cores and 2 efficiency cores, 32-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine, and 400GB/s memory bandwidth. The chip is 2.5x faster at CPU performance than the 10-core Intel i9 and 3.4x faster at GPU performance than the Radeon Pro 5700 XT graphics card. In video transcoding, the M1 Max is 7.5x faster than the Intel i9 and 3.7x faster than the 16-core 2019 Mac Pro.

The M1 Ultra Mac Studio, in contrast, has a 20-core CPU with 16 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores, 48-core GPU, 32-core Neural Engine, and 800GB/s memory bandwidth. The chip is 3.8x faster at CPU performance than the Intel i9, 90% than the 16-core Mac Pro, and 60% faster than the 28-core 2019 Mac Pro. The GPU is 4.5x faster than the i9 and 80% faster than the 10-core Mac Pro. The M1 Ultra is 12x faster at transcoding video than Intel i9, and 5.6x faster than the 28-core Mac Pro. The M1 Ultra combines two M1 Max chips with an Ultra-Fusion processor and hence has double the performance as the M1 Max.

The back of both variants has Thunderbolt 4, a 10Gb Ethernet, USB-A, HDMI, and a pro audio jack, and the front has a Thunderbolt 4-supported front-facing SD card slot with two embedded 10Gb/s USB-C ports for the M1 Max model and four 40Gb/s Thunderbolt ports for the M1 Ultra. The Mac Studio incoperates a thermal design of 4,000 perforations on the back and bottom of the enclosure to keep the Mac quiet under heavy workloads.

Studio Display
With an all-screen design of narrow border for broader visibility and a tilt- and height-adjustable stand, the Studio Display has a 27-inch, 14.7 pixel, 5K Retina display with supports of True Tone ambident light technology and nano-texture glass. The display has three-mic arrays and a six-speaker cinematic spatial audio system. It also has a 12MP Ultra Wide camera that supports Center Stage technology, which pinpoints the positions of the participants in a video conference and automatically tracks the camera view accordingly to centers them.