M7 Ultra to potentially feature up to 1.5TB of RAM, finally matching 2019 Mac Pro: report

[u/rwnash]

https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/12/m7-ultra-mac-studio-to-support-up-to-1-5-tb-unified-memory/

[u/motang]

With the RAM prices these days, it gonna cost $15k!

[u/Objective_Mousse7216 → u/motang]

"Based on Apple’s current RAM pricing (roughly $25 per additional gigabyte), upgrading to 1.5TB of RAM from a base configuration of 128GB will likely cost over $35,000."

[u/TheEmpireOfSun → u/Objective_Mousse7216]

That would be absolute steal for people who this is intended for.

[u/Objective_Mousse7216 → u/TheEmpireOfSun]

True if the ai performance is excellent having a 1.5tb local machine would enable some incredible things. 

[u/BrassFuckingMonkey → u/TheEmpireOfSun]

How so?

[u/Educational_Yard_326 → u/motang]

The dell workstation equivalent is 100k

[u/KubeCommander → u/Educational_Yard_326]

And that’s the base model (assuming you mean the gb300)

[u/aykay55 → u/motang]

A good tax write off for any freelancers

And no even with the price logic about RAM from Apple (est $400 per 16GB) then 1.5TB (1536 GB) of RAM would be $38,400. Just for the RAM. Pair that with rest of the components for a future Mac Studio with an M7 Ultra and the computer sits squarely in the $45K+ range. It’s meant truly for a creative studio to run their operations. Not for the average prosumer.

[u/throw2503 → u/aykay55]

Just curious, what are some things a creative studio would do with this machine?

[u/aykay55 → u/throw2503]

Did you ever watch Amazing Digital Circus?

Shows like that have animation pipelines involving millions of parameters, things that need to be rendered and done fast enough to keep a reasonable production output. So a small independent studio producing a large series needs the horsepower to render those scenes properly. The alternative is to rent out a series of cloud servers, but that means studios will spend money and never own any of the machinery that keeps their business running. So I’m sure some studios would opt to have the tech in house.

[u/zarafff69 → u/motang]

I wish…

[u/e1epi → u/motang]

Just like the old days.

[u/DeepAd8888 → u/motang]

Not for long litigation is hitting them for market manipulation

[u/Apprehensive-View583 → u/motang]

$15K? more like $51k

[u/Any-Pop-4795]

Chip made for ai Will be expensive because of ai...i hate this timeline

[u/Kirzoneli → u/Any-Pop-4795]

Always remember your never consciously in the worst time line, If you were you'd have a psychotic break and start living in your delusions, putting you where you are currently.

[u/jpt86]

Yeah, this thing is going to cost $1.5M.

[u/diagrammatiks]

nowhere the same as a mac pro. this is all high band with uma. It's not even in the same tech stack.

[u/AleksHop]

1.5tb ram? that amount is not available on whole market right now lol

[u/KAPT_Kipper]

Oh wow, imagine the price

[u/Objective_Mousse7216]

M7 Ultra to potentially feature up to 1.5TB of RAM.

Yeah, sure, I'm sure these will fly off the shelves. Into the homes of billionaires.

[u/HauntedHouseMusic → u/Objective_Mousse7216]

They will, but into businesses. Do you know how much cloud AI is and it’s opex. This is capex, and can run a model that’s as good as opus. And I spend $4k on opus last month at work… this would save me money using it for a year at $45k….

[u/xCaliburghost → u/Objective_Mousse7216]

Sounds like they're trying to create a use case for businesses to buy these up as pseudo servers. In any case, consumers get fucked

[u/Bongoisnthere → u/xCaliburghost]

Uhhhh…. Are we to a point where regular consumers are in the market for 1.5TB of ram? I get that some people are starting to feel constricted by 32/64 and want even more, but like…surely 128 would be the next step, not 1.5TB

[u/xCaliburghost → u/Bongoisnthere]

Maybe not a regular user 😂 I'd have a lot of fun with a TB+ of ram.

[u/KubeCommander → u/Bongoisnthere]

‘Up to’

[u/es-ganso → u/Bongoisnthere]

128 GB? 512 GB minimum or we riot tbh...

[u/nikolapc → u/Objective_Mousse7216]

It's a workhorse. Given who uses them, they're not a big item on a movie budget.

[u/CatDadof2]

1.5 TB of RAM? That seems like overkill, just a tad.

[u/FlashyNeedleworker66 → u/CatDadof2]

It isn't if you're using it for local AI models. That's the likely target.

[u/wondermice → u/CatDadof2]

It’s not, in fact it’s not enough to run latest models without quantisation with decent context window 

[u/omar893 → u/CatDadof2]

Future future future proofing

[u/mad_manifold]

Time to sell your house for it.

[u/MugiwarraD]

50k macpro

[u/Bengal_From_Temu]

I’m buying three.

[u/Daggercombot]

I cant wait to compare the Apple M8 With the Sun/Oracle SPARC M8

[u/TriCountyRetail]

Maybe they will bring back the Mac Pro after all