MacRumors reports,Apple has put its top-end desktop Mac Pro on the "backburner," essentially abandoning the product line and currently has no plans for a major refresh in 2026.Apple believes that the more compact Mac Studio is the ideal form of high-end desktop computing, and has actually used it to replace the market positioning of the Mac Pro.
Therefore, users who are looking forward to a major upgrade of Mac Pro in 2026 may be disappointed.
chip level,Apple is actively developing the M5 Ultra chip that will be launched next year (2026). This top-of-the-line chip is planned only for the Mac Studio and won't be available for the Mac Pro.
This means that with the release of the next generation of Mac Studio, the performance gap between the two will further widen.
Looking at the specific parameters, the advantages of Mac Pro are no longer significant. The current Mac Studio equipped with the M3 Ultra chip has surpassed the Mac Pro in many aspects: it supports more CPU and GPU cores, has a maximum storage capacity of 16TB (Mac Pro is 8TB), has a unified memory limit of 512GB (Mac Pro is 192GB), and can support four 8K displays (Mac Pro only supports three). The Mac Pro also lacks a Thunderbolt 5 port.
Historically, Apple has struggled to meet the needs of professional desktop users.The "trash can" Mac Pro released in 2013 sacrificed heat dissipation capabilities due to excessive pursuit of design, resulting in the inability to adapt to subsequent high-performance GPUs, and was ultimately regarded as a failed attempt.
