Mac Studio M5 Max holds its price while promising real-time 8K grading

Apple has refreshed the Mac Studio, and the headline for anyone working in video is straightforward: Apple says the top configuration can colour-grade uncompressed 8K footage in real time. The M5 Max model starts at $2,499 — unchanged from its predecessor, which given this year’s component price rises is worth noting on its own. Details are on the Apple Mac Studio page. M5 Max: the sensible professional choice The M5 Max configuration runs an 18-core CPU with up to a 40-core GPU carrying Neural Accelerators, up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 614GB/s of memory bandwidth. Apple claims it is up to 50% faster than the M4 Max Mac Studio it replaces. That bandwidth figure is the one photographers and editors should pay attention to. For multi-layer Photoshop documents, large Lightroom catalogues and 4K or 6K timelines in Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, memory bandwidth governs how responsive...