Subj : Apple M3 Max CPU flexes muscles and embarrasses M2 Ultra in battl To : All From : TechnologyDaily Date : Thu Nov 02 2023 11:45:05 Apple M3 Max CPU flexes muscles and embarrasses M2 Ultra in battle of the benchmarks Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 11:21:53 +0000 Description: The M3 Max is looking speedy indeed and thats got folks excited about how quick the M3 Ultra may eventually be. FULL STORY ====================================================================== Apples new M3 chips have been the talk of silicon town (population: a whole lot of chips) since they were revealed in refreshed MacBooks (and a new iMac 2023 ), and now weve got some fresh benchmark scores for the SoCs this time for the M3 Max, excitingly. Weve already seen Geekbench results for the vanilla M3 chip, and now there are scores for the M3 Max which shows its pretty much equivalent to the outgoing M2 UItra. Wow, M3 Max outperforms M2 Ultra in Geekbench!While a small margin, it's funny how Mac Pro always ages poorly. 2019 Mac Pro was released less than a year before the Apple Silicon transition, and now the M2 Ultra Mac Pro is being beat by a lower end chip 4 months after release. pic.twitter.com/KlFx29UAOl November 1, 2023 See more Indeed, according to a Geekbench 6 score provided by leaker Michael Burkhardt on X (formerly Twitter), the M3 Max is actually a touch faster to the tune of 3% than the M2 Ultra, hitting 21,890 for multi-core. (Hat tip to Wccftech here). We should be cautious around this score, though, as we arent told where it comes from, or which version of the M3 Max is benchmarked we can presume its the beefier one, though. There are 14-core and 16-core versions, so were guessing it must be the latter. What backs this up, though, is that other Geekbench 6 results paint a similar picture, like these flagged by another well-known Apple leaker on X, Luke Miani. Dog how is M3 Max scoring IDENTICAL to M2 Ultra The Mac Pro that launched in JUNE (recent) is already pointless when it wasnt even a remotely good value to begin with RIP pic.twitter.com/nWt9nhDgDh November 2, 2023 See more These show multi-core results of around the 21,000 mark, so thats more level with the M2 Ultra than slightly overtaking it. So, the overall gist is that the M3 Max is equivalent to the M2 Ultra. As mentioned at the outset, there are other new Geekbench 6 benchmarks floating around for the base M3 chip which show much the same results we reported on yesterday , bearing out Apples claim for the new SoC being 20% faster than the plain M2. Those leaks also show us the clock speed of 4.05GHz for the M3, a fairly big leap from 3.5GHz for the M2, and part of the gains will come from cranking up those clocks, of course. Analysis: A result to be core-ful around (ahem) Why are these M3 Max benchmarks a big deal? Well, remember that the Ultra model is the top spec, foot to the absolute floor version of Apples SoCs, and the M2 Ultra has 24-cores (16 performance cores plus 8 efficiency). Compare that to the M3 Max which has 16-cores (or maybe this is even the 14-core version we dont know for sure), and you can see why its impressive that the new M3 variant can beat out the old top dog. That said, we have to be very wary of drawing anything like firm conclusions from a single benchmark tool, when other benchmarks may tell a somewhat different story. We need a varied landscape of these results (and real-world performance, compared to synthetic benchmarks, can be a different matter, as ever). This hasnt stopped excited chatter about the M3 Max online in light of this, though, as you can imagine. And furthermore, whispers about how powerful the M3 Ultra could be when it emerges Tim Cook needs some way to stoke flagging Mac sales, and the M3 looks like an enticing part of the puzzle in terms of persuading folks to choose Apple when they buy a new laptop . You might also like The 3 big ways the Apple M3 chips will change Mac gaming forever M3 MacBook Pro rushed out as Apples solution to flagging sales? Apple Silicon is now more important than Apple design ====================================================================== Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/computing/cpu/apple-m3-max-cpu-flexes-muscles-and-em barrasses-m2-ultra-in-battle-of-the-benchmarks --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 (Linux/64) * Origin: tqwNet Technology News (1337:1/100) .