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Question for M2 Mac Studio owners: How did you choose your specs? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world

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Title says it all. I'm planning to get an M2 Mac Studio soon. Personally, I'm still coming to a decision on the following SoC & RAM options:

SoC:

M2 Ultra with 24-core CPU, 60-core GPU, 32-core Neural Engine
M2 Ultra with 24-core CPU, 76-core GPU, 32-core Neural Engine

RAM:

128GB
192GB

To current M2 Studio owners, how did you choose your specs and why? Also could you comment on real world performance with regards to your workflow(s)? Thanks! :)

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[–] matthewc@lemmy.self-host.site 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Developer here. Completely depends on your workflow.

I went base model and the only thing I regret is not getting more RAM.

Speeds have been phenomenal when there binaries are native. Speeds have been good when the binaries are running through Rosetta.

The specs you’re wavering between are extremely workflow specific. You know if your workflow requires the 16 extra GPU cores. You know if your workflow requires another 64 GB of RAM.

[–] i11@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What use case would you need more than 32gb RAM?

[–] matthewc@lemmy.self-host.site 2 points 1 year ago

I spin up a lot of Docker containers with large data sets locally.

[–] dszp@artemis.camp 1 points 1 year ago

My M2 Max MBP with 64GB RAM can have a decent chunk of apps open while handling 1500 open browser tabs in about 50GB of RAM with no swap. As an example. Used quite a bit of swap on my M1 16GB previously.