Apple's 80-core M5 Ultra Beats RTX 5080 in Blender, Narrowly Trails RTX 5090
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In Blender Open Data, Apple's 80-core M5 Ultra scores about 15,350, beating Nvidia's RTX 5080 (~9,100) and narrowing the gap to the RTX 5090 (~16,000) to under 5%. The Mac Studio with M5 Ultra (~$6.8k) sits well below a RTX 5090 build (~$9k), though RTX 5090 alone is still around $6.7k. Real‑world results vary with API (Metal vs CUDA/OptiX) and workload.
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