Unsurprisingly, the performance of the new Mac Studio with M3 Ultra appears to be markedly faster than its predecessor, at least according to initial benchmarks.

If you can afford to really spend a lot on a new video rendering machine this year (or you can expense it), the Mac Studio M3 Ultra has the potential to be an absolute beast of a production machine. The base $3,999 model has the M3 Ultra chip sporting a 32-core CPU and an 80-core GPU, with 96GB of RAM and a basic 1TB of storage to start.

The new Apple Mac Studio 2025 comes with either an M4 Max or M3 Ultra chipset, but what's the point in getting the older M3 CPU? Leaked benchmark scores may give us an answer.