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August 27, 2026
Apple M6 and M5 Ultra: The Number That Actually Matters Is Bandwidth
Apple shipped two chips on the same day from two different generations. The M5 Ultra has the same 80 GPU cores and the same 512GB memory ceiling as the M3 Ultra it replaces — yet 4.5x the AI compute. Here is what that gap tells you about where local AI is really headed.
Saurabh Borakhade