The Mac Studio hasn't been updated yet. The equation changes once it's also on the M4 Max and Ultra.

Well, judging by the M1 and M2, the M4 Ultra will support 256GB of memory, so there's that. And it will have 2x the GPU and 2x the CPU cores...

And the port assortment is overall nicer in terms of not requiring an External TB4 hub for production environments (I literally have something plugged into every port on my M1 Max Mac Studio, even on the front!)

> Mac Mini (fastest CPU, 64 GB ram, 1 TB SSD, 10 GbE): $2500

> Mac Studio (fastest CPU, 64 GB ram, 1 TB SSD, 10 GbE): $5000

In those configurations, the Studio would have roughly 2x the GPU power of the Mini, with equivalent CPU power. It also has twice as many Thunderbolt ports (albeit TB4 instead of TB5), and can support more monitors.

It's probably also got better cooling. And you get some ordinary USB sockets as well!

The GPU difference might be material.

But it is obviously a bad time to invest in a Mac Studio.

AFAIK, memory bandwidth. M2 Ultra 800GB/s, whereas M4 Max is just 546GB/s. For example, local LLM inference has a big bottleneck on bandwidth. 50% extra is significant.

I wish the Studio received an upgrade, with a new M4 Ultra potentially going over 1TB/s. It also offers better cooling for long computations.