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Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.

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SpecApple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)AWS Trainium2
Bandwidth GB S819—
Base Price USD3,999—
Bf16 Tflops PER Chip—667
Chips PER Trn2 Instance—16
Chips PER Ultraserver—64
Comparator 50905,090—
CPU Cores 512gb Config32—
FP8 Dense Petaflops PER Chip—1.3
FP8 Sparse Petaflops PER Chip—5.2
GPU Cores 512gb Config80—
HBM Bandwidth TB S PER Chip—2.9
HBM Capacity GB PER Chip—96
HBM Type—HBM3
Launch Date2025-03-05—
M Series Version3—
MSRP (USD)↓ better9,499—
Neuroncores PER Chip—8
Only 96gb Config From2026-05-05—
Option 512gb Removed2026-03-05—
Statusdiscontinued—
Status Checked2026-09-24—
SuccessorMac Studio with M5 Max / M5 Ultra (up to 512 GB unified memory)—
Successor M5 Ultra Base Price USD5,499—
Superseded ON2026-08-25—
TDP (W)↓ better270—
Trainium3 GA—2025-12-02
Trainium3 HBM Bandwidth TB S—4.9
Trainium3 Hbm3e GB PER Chip—144
Trn2 Instance FP8 Petaflops—20.8
Trn2 Instance HBM TB—1.5
Trn3 Ultraserver FP8 Pflops—362
Trn3 Ultraserver MAX Chips—144
Ultraserver FP8 Petaflops—83.2
Ultraserver Total HBM Bandwidth TB S—185
Ultraserver Total HBM TB—6
Unified Memory Base GB96—
Unified Memory MAX GB512—
Unified Memory MID GB256—
Upgrade 512gb USD4,000—
Upgrade Chip USD1,500—