M1 Max vs M1 Ultra: Geekbench 5 CPU benchmarks. We'll have to wait until we get some of the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros in for review to find out, at which point you can bet we'll be racing to install Geekbench and put the new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips through their paces. How the M1 Ultra in the Mac Studio impacts pro users real-world workflows. Also, these M1 Max benchmarks appear to be from a MacBook Pro running a pre-release version of macOS Monterey (branded Build 21E140a) as a result, they may not be accurate.įurthermore, the base frequency listed for the M1 Max is a ridiculously low 24MHz, and while that could be easily explained away as Geekbench not (yet) being able to accurately identify the M1 Max's capabilities, such a failing raises real doubts about whether any of these scores reflect what the hardware is truly capable of. As Tom's Hardware points out, it's reasonable to expect the M1 Max to earn a higher multi-core score, given that it has twice the performance cores of the M1 (8 vs 4). However, there are some caveats that cast a shadow over these alleged M1 Max benchmarks. That's in the same range as the the scores we saw on the M1-equipped MacBook Pro and Air, suggesting that while Apple's M1 Max chip is indeed a very powerful chip, it's not going to deliver many magnitudes more power than the M1. To give you some comparison points, the Mac Mini with M1 that we ran through Geekbench 5.3 (which is comparable to 5.4) earned a single-core score of 1,744 and a multi-core score of 7,683.

Dear reader, this is just to let you know that as an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.The alleged M1 Max Geekbench 5 test results make this chip seem a little less impressive than Apple promised (Image credit: Geekbench) Please follow me on Twitter, or join me in the AppleHolic’s bar & grill and Apple Discussions groups on MeWe. Meanwhile it seems time to consider what this means for the next big Apple introduction, the Mac Pro.

This is why early tests suggest the M1 Max MacBook Pros are as fast as a $6,000+ Mac Pro with a 12-core Intel Xeon, but use a lot less energy. What this means is that you now carry more transistors in an M1 Max than you’ll find in all the Macs Apple sold in 1984, and 57x the raw transistor power Pixar used to make Toy Story.Ī new Mac chip will have twice as many transistors as all the CPUs in all the Macs Apple shipped in 1984. Apple at the coresĪpple has also tweaked what the cores do, so the Mac chips have been developed to deliver better performance. What that means is that whle you get 15.8 billion transistors in the A15, the Mac variants offer up to 57 billion transistors (M1 Max). While all these chips are built using TSMC’s 5-nanometer process (which is also a first for PCs), the larger chips carry more transistors, which basically translate into better performance. Passmark is out the gate (November 2) with its own data, w hich shows Apple’s M-series chips in the top four positions in terms of single-core tests.

The M1 Max Macbook Pro also performs better than the Razer Blade 15 Advanced Model.

Apple’s new processors also beat the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050Ti as deployed in the test PC, a Lenovo Legion 5 (82JW0012US) – and is also comparable to the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080.

That was in tests against the high-end MSI GP66 Leopard (11UG-018).

It matches the highest performance of that chip at 70% less power.The M1 Pro and M1 Max deliver 1.7 times more performance than the latest 8-core Intel Core i7-11800H laptop chip in the same power envelope.The M1X Max reportedly outperforms the previous Intel chip found in the 16-inch MacBook Pro by 62 percent.Īs you can read here and here, Apple made several claims during the product introduction, but in the small print we find several more.In part this is because of the 32-core GPU, which delivers four times as many GPU cores as found on the M1. Geekbench claims the M1 Mac offers up to 3x faster GPU compared to the original M1.

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