Help me choose the best upgrade for a M1 Mac Studio Ultra

[gojo]

OK I am going to buy the Mac Studio Ultra M1, not wait any longer for an M2. In order to achieve maximum "RAM" which upgrade should I opt for?

Currently my workspace requires performance photo editing using several apps open at the same time- simultaneously editing in photoshop, lightroom classic, dxo, and Luminar neo. After reading these comments I would like to know if upgrading the Mac Studio Ultra 's GPU from 48 to 64-core, then upgrading the unified memory from 64GB to 128GB will help with this?

 

[designerdave72]

OK I am going to buy the Mac Studio Ultra M1, not wait any longer for an M2. In order to achieve maximum "RAM" which upgrade should I opt for?

Currently my workspace requires performance photo editing using several apps open at the same time- simultaneously editing in photoshop, lightroom classic, dxo, and Luminar neo. After reading these comments I would like to know if upgrading the Mac Studio Ultra 's GPU from 48 to 64-core, then upgrading the unified memory from 64GB to 128GB will help with this?

If you purchase the 'highest spec possible' you will be ok for at least 5 years but it really is down to budget so maybe max out the Max with 64gb. 64gb is probably ok for what you plan to use it for.

 

[Gr1f]

I specced mine with 16core and 128GB Memory with 4TB HD. I like you wanted to future-proof it at least a bit.
Only expansion I have is 2 external NVMe enclosures set to Raid0 on 2 x TB3 ports that I use for anything temporary, caches, cloud drives (mind you Google just killed that idea), downloads etc.

Daily I'd have the following running (at least):
Photoshop
illustrator
Lightroom Classic
Media Encoder
After Effects
Indesign
Chrome - at least 20-25 windows open
Safari - ~5 windows open
Mail
Slack
Whatsapp
Apple Music
BBEdit

It doesn't break a sweat.

 

[Appletoni]

OK I am going to buy the Mac Studio Ultra M1, not wait any longer for an M2. In order to achieve maximum "RAM" which upgrade should I opt for?

Currently my workspace requires performance photo editing using several apps open at the same time- simultaneously editing in photoshop, lightroom classic, dxo, and Luminar neo. After reading these comments I would like to know if upgrading the Mac Studio Ultra 's GPU from 48 to 64-core, then upgrading the unified memory from 64GB to 128GB will help with this?

Buy the M1 ULTRA, maxed out version, with 16-inch MacBook Pro screen ;-)

 

[sam_dean]

OK I am going to buy the Mac Studio Ultra M1, not wait any longer for an M2. In order to achieve maximum "RAM" which upgrade should I opt for?

Currently my workspace requires performance photo editing using several apps open at the same time- simultaneously editing in photoshop, lightroom classic, dxo, and Luminar neo. After reading these comments I would like to know if upgrading the Mac Studio Ultra 's GPU from 48 to 64-core, then upgrading the unified memory from 64GB to 128GB will help with this?

Max it out. Highest options for everything

 

[mr_jomo]

ArtisRight covers the Mac Studios is detail:

The base Ultra - in these workloads - holds up very will against the 64 core upgrade.

 

[cpnotebook80]

ArtisRight covers the Mac Studios is detail:

The base Ultra - in these workloads - holds up very will against the 64 core upgrade.

His reviews are great. Waiting for the M2 ultra to see if it follows the m1->m2 scaling.