Apple Mac Mini M6 and Mac Studio M5 Ultra: Specs, Price, Release Date

Apple introduced updated Mac Mini and Mac Studio desktops powered by new M6 and M5 Ultra silicon, respectively, while retaining the same chassis. The M6, built on a 2 nm process, features a 12-core CPU (2 super, 4 performance, 6 efficiency), 12-core GPU and dual 16-core Neural Engine, delivering up to 40% faster performance than the M4 and a $899 starting price. The M5 Ultra uses a quad-die architecture with 36 CPU cores, 80 GPU cores and UltraFusion bandwidth exceeding 4.4 TB/s, enabling multi-system Thunderbolt 5 clustering for trillion-parameter AI models; both models ship September 22 with macOS 27 Golden Gate.