Yesterday, Apple officially announced the new Mac mini with the all-new M6 and M5 Pro chips, while the company also introduced the new Mac Studio featuring M5 Max and the all-new M5 Ultra chips.
Mac Mini with the new M6 and M5 Pro
With M6, Mac mini now delivers up to 4x faster AI performance, 2x faster storage and graphics than Mac mini with M4, and 40% faster CPU performance. The Mac mini with M5 Pro delivers even more pro-level performance to breeze through demanding projects, from video production to game development.
The new Mac Mini with M6 and M5 Pro supports WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 6, as well as 2.5GB Ethernet for faster wired connectivity, with 10GB available. On the front are two USB-C ports that support USB 3 and a headphone jack with high-impedance headphone support for convenient access. On the back, there are 3 Thunderbolt 4 ports on the M6 model, and 3 Thunderbolt 5 ports on the M5 Pro model, along with HDMI and Ethernet. And newly added genlock support through USB-C enables precise synchronisation between a display and camera, including the iPhone 17 Pro.
The new Mac mini comes with the upcoming macOS 27 (Golden Gate), which includes Siri AI, a profoundly more capable and personal assistant, helpful Apple Intelligence features and an expansive set of improvements.
The new Mac Mini is made with 50% recycled material overall, including 100% recycled aluminium in the enclosure and 100% recycled rare earth elements in all magnets. All of the electricity used to manufacture the Mac mini is sourced from renewable energy. Its paper packaging is 100% fibre-based and can be easily recycled at home.
Mac Mini with the new M6
M6 features a 12-core CPU with the world’s fastest single-threaded performance. In addition, the all-new dual 16-core Neural Engine delivers up to 2x faster performance than the previous generation, and combined with the advanced 12-core GPU, Mac mini is a powerhouse for all things AI.
And with 16GB of standard unified memory configurable up to 32GB, as well as higher memory bandwidth up to 170GB/s, multitasking is faster than ever.
Mac Mini with M6 delivers:
- Up to 13.5x faster LLM prompt processing in LM Studio when compared to Mac mini with M1, and up to 4.8x faster than M4.
- Up to 2.3x faster spreadsheet calculations in MS Excel when compared to Mac mini with M1, and up to 1.5x faster than M4.
- Up to 2x faster gaming performance with ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition when compared to Mac mini with M4.
Mac Mini with M5 Pro
M5 Pro features up to an 18-core CPU with remarkable multithreaded performance and up to a 20-core GPU with enhanced shader code and third-generation ray tracing for complex work in 3D design, VFX, and game development.
Users can tackle more advanced AI workflows like photo and video upscaling, and run large diffusion models faster than ever. Mac Mini with M5 Pro supports up to 64GB of unified memory with 307GB/s of memory bandwidth, enabling users to run even larger local AI models, work with complex 3D scenes, edit ProRes RAW files, and load large custom datasets for research.
Mac mini with M5 Pro is quiet, efficient, and ideal as an always-on desktop for AI agents or creative workflows.
Mac Mini with M5 Pro delivers:
- Up to 8.5x faster LLM prompt processing performance in LM Studio when compared to Mac mini with M2 Pro, and up to 4x faster than M4 Pro.
- Up to 4.5x faster rendering performance with ray tracing in Blender when compared to Mac mini with M2 Pro, and up to 1.4x faster than M4 Pro.
- Up to 2.1x faster image processing in Affinity when compared to Mac mini with M2 Pro, and up to 1.5x faster than M4 Pro.
Pricing and Availability
Customers can pre-order the new Mac Mini on apple.com and in the Apple Store app in 30 countries and regions. It will begin arriving to customers and in Apple Store locations and Apple-authorised resellers starting 22nd September.
Mac mini with M6 starts at INR 99900 (INR 88900 for education), while Mac mini with M5 Pro starts at INR 209900 (INR 197900 for education).
Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
Mac Studio with M5 Max features an 18-core CPU, an up-to-40-core GPU with Neural accelerators built into each core, and up to 128GB of unified memory. With M5 Ultra, Mac Studio scales up to a 36-core CPU, up to an 80-core GPU, and a staggering 512GB of unified memory.
M5 Max features phenomenal on-device AI compute with up to 3.9x faster AI performance than the prior generation. With M5 Ultra, Mac Studio achieves up to 4.3x the peak AI compute performance of M3 Ultra and a staggering 9.8x more than M1 Ultra. It is combined with up to 512GB of unified memory and 1.2TB/s of memory bandwidth.
There is built-in support for Thunderbolt 5 and RDMA (remote direct memory access), which users and teams looking to share AI compute can use to cluster multiple Mac Studio systems. A cluster of 4 Mac Studio systems delivers up to a remarkable 3x faster AI inference than a single system.
The new Mac Studio also features faster storage and a comprehensive array of pro connectivity. The Apple-designed N1 chip brings WiFi 7 and Bluetooth 6, while Mac Studio now enables genlock over USB-C for precise synchronisation between a display and professional camera capture like the iPhone 17 Pro. It also supports up to 8 displays, or up to 4 Studio Display XDR at full 5K resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate.
It comes with the upcoming macOS 27 (Golden Gate), which includes Siri AI, helpful Apple Intelligence features across everyday apps, and an expansive set of improvements.
Keeping the environment in mind, it is made with 35% recycled content overall, including 100% recycled aluminium in the enclosure and 100% recycled rare earth elements in all magnets. The Mac Studio is manufactured with 40% renewable energy. Its paper packaging is 100% fibre-based and can be easily recycled at home.
Mac Studio with M5 Max
Comes with up to 614GB/s of unified memory bandwidth. Its powerful Media Engine supports hardware-accelerated H.264, HEVC, ProRes, and AV1 decode, allowing filmmakers to colour-grade uncompressed 8K footage and process multiple concurrent video streams with ease.
It delivers:
- Up to 10.7x faster LLM prompt processing in LM Studio when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Max, and 3.9x faster than M4 Max.
- Up to 7.4x faster text-to-image performance when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Max, and up to 3.5x faster than M4 Max.
- Up to 5.3x faster Magic Mask performance in Blackmagic Design DaVinci Resolve Studio when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Max, and up to 3x faster than M4 Max.
- Up to 3.5x faster basecalling for DNA sequencing in Oxford Nanopore MinKNOW when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Max, and up to 1.9x faster than M4 Max.
Mac Studio with M5 Ultra
With twice the video encode and decode blocks at M5 Max, the Media Engine in M5 Ultra is more capable than ever, empowering pros to simultaneously play up to 33 streams of 8K ProRes 422 at 30fps on M5 Ultra.
It delivers:
- Up to 15.4x faster CopyCat ML training performance in Foundry Nuke when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Ultra, and up to 3.3x faster than M3 Ultra.
- Up to 9.8x faster LLM prompt processing in LM Studio when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Ultra, and up to 4x faster than M3 Ultra.
- Up to 8.2x faster text-to-image performance when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Ultra, and up to 4.3x faster than M3 Ultra.
- Up to 4.7x faster scene rendering performance in Maxon Redshift when compared to Mac Studio with M1 Ultra, and up to 1.7x faster than M3 Ultra.
Pricing and Availability
Customers can pre-order the new Mac Studio on apple.com and in the Apple Store app in 30 countries and regions. It will be available for sale starting 22nd September. Mac Studio with 512GB of unified memory is coming in late October.
Mac Studio with M5 Max starts at INR 279900 (INR 256900 for education), while the Mac Studio with M5 Ultra starts at INR 629900 (INR 584900 for education).
