Next Mac Studio with M5 Ultra chip set to be Apple's most powerful yet — here's when it may arrive

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The first hint of an M5 Ultra chip powering the next Mac Studio

Apple Mac Studio M4 Max review unit on a desk
(Image credit: Future)

Thinking of buying a Mac Studio? You may want to hold off, as the M5 Ultra is rumored to make its debut on what will be Apple's most powerful Mac desktop yet.

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple is skipping the M4 Ultra and going straight to an M5 Ultra chip to power its upcoming Mac Studio. Considering the impressive M5 chip benchmarks and how the M-series Ultra processors link two Max CPUs using UltraFusion architecture to double performance, this will be the Cupertino tech giant's highest-performing chip to date.

M5 Pro and M5 Max come first

Apple M5 chip render

(Image credit: Future / Apple)

With Apple's latest silicon arriving on the M5 MacBook Pro and M5 iPad Pro, we now look towards the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips to arrive — expected to be sometime in early 2026. If this is the case, the M5 Ultra will likely launch after these silicon are released.

In the past, Apple launched its M1 Ultra and M3 Ultra in March, with the M2 Ultra chip being announced in June. This gives us a good idea of when the M5 Ultra will be released, as the Ultra variants typically launch after the Pro and Max chips. If this is the case, it may be sometime during the first half of 2026.

Hopefully, the M5 Ultra will arrive sooner rather than later in the year, seeing as a redesigned MacBook Pro with a touchscreen OLED panel is set to kick off the M6-series chips.

Interestingly, the tech giant is will reportedly debut a new Studio Display is gearing up to arrive by 2026, which could coincide with the launch of the M5 Ultra Mac Studio. In any case, time will tell when we'll see Apple's most powerful chip arrive.

That's not all that's rumored to be in the works, as Apple is reportedly planning to reveal a budget-friendly MacBook with an iPhone processor sometime in the first half of 2026. So, expect an array of Mac models coming next year.

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Darragh Murphy
Darragh Murphy
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Darragh is Tom’s Guide’s Computing Editor and is fascinated by all things bizarre in tech. His work can be seen in Laptop Mag, Mashable, Android Police, Shortlist Dubai, Proton, theBit.nz, ReviewsFire and more. When he's not checking out the latest devices and all things computing, he can be found going for dreaded long runs, watching terrible shark movies and trying to find time to game

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