The most powerful Mac goes on sale. It almost beat Nvidia's best card in Blender Home News Mac Studio with the M5 Ultra chip appeared in the Blender Open Data database with a score of 15,350 points It beats the RTX 5080 by approximately 69%, and trails the most powerful RTX 5090 by about 4% In the Czech Republic, the configuration with 80-core graphics costs 193,990 CZK Sdílejte: Jakub Kárník Published: 23. 9. 2026 10:30 Advertisement The new Apple Mac Studio officially goes on sale today, and the first benchmark numbers are already out. In the Blender Open Data database, which measures performance in rendering 3D scenes, the version with the M5 Ultra chip and 80-core graphics scored 15,350 points. This result in this test is close to the most powerful gaming card available today. Double its predecessor Nvidia still leads What's the price of admission Double its predecessor Compared to the previous Mac Studio with M3 Ultra, which achieves around 7,234 points in Blender, this is more than a twofold leap. The M5 Ultra is actually a pair of M5 Max chips connected into one. The result reflects this: the M5 Max alone scores roughly 8,112 points, so doubling the graphics brought almost double the performance. This is not a given when combining chips. CHCI MAC STUDIO S M5 ULTRA Nvidia still leads The GeForce RTX 5080 card averages around 9,100 points in Blender, making the M5 Ultra roughly 69% faster. The flagship RTX 5090, with approximately 16,000 points, remains ahead, by only about 4%. The context is important: Blender primarily tests rendering, and Apple runs it via the Metal interface, while Nvidia uses CUDA and OptiX. In games or when training AI models, the difference could be entirely different. Apple, on the other hand, has an ace up its sleeve in terms of memory: Mac Studio offers up to 512 GB of unified memory, which the graphics can fully utilize, whereas the RTX 5090 has 32 GB. CHCI MAC STUDIO S M5 ULTRA What’s the price of admission The Mac Studio with M5 Ultra starts in the Czech Republic at 154,990 CZK for the version with a 30-core processor, 64-core graphics, and 96 GB of memory. The tested configuration with a 36-core processor and 80-core graphics costs 193,990 CZK. This is not cheap, but an adequate setup with an RTX 5090 doesn’t come out much cheaper today due to expensive graphics cards and memory. Additionally, the Mac Studio occupies a cube on the desk with sides less than 20 centimeters. Would you trade a gaming PC with an RTX 5090 for a Mac Studio? Source: Notebookcheck, Blender Open Data, Applemagazin, Macworld About the author Jakub Kárník Jakub is known for his endless curiosity and passion for the latest technologies. His love for mobile phones started with an iPhone 3G, but nowadays… More about the author Sdílejte: Apple mac nVidia You might be interested in You pay 12 thousand more and get slower memory. Test revealed a weakness of the 1TB iPhone Jakub Kárník 21. 9. iPhone 18 Pro has the best night camera on the market. But it wasn't enough for first place in DXOMARK Jakub Kárník 21. 9. Apple blew everyone away! The base M6 chip has very powerful graphics and processor Jakub Kárník 21. 9. Nvidia's new generation of graphics cards is reportedly arriving sooner. RTX 60 is targeting early 2027 Jakub Kárník 15. 9. The most copied thing on the new iPhone? A several-second animation that has already been successfully run on a Samsung Jakub Kárník 13. 9. Half the internet is debating this detail about the iPhone Duo. The reality, however, might be much simpler Jakub Kárník 11. 9.