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Just a few hours after the official presentation, an alleged benchmark has surfaced that is supposed to show the true performance of the Apple M1 Max.
According to a Geekbench post The M1 Max with 10 cores and 32 GB of RAM achieves a single-core score of 1749 and a multi-core score of 11542, which represents a significant increase in performance compared to last year's Apple Silicon designs - the M1. The average values for the current 13-inch MacBook Pro with an 8-core M1 chip, for example, are a single-core result of around 1750 while the multi-core results are around the 7600 mark. The M1 Max performs well compared to all Mac systems, including those with Intel processors. Only Mac Pro and iMac models equipped with Intel's Xeon processors outperform Apple's most powerful chip, as the entries show. But: Although the data is easy to read, it should be noted that there are inconsistencies. The founder of Geekbench, John Poole, noted opposite MacRumors notes that the chip's base frequency is strangely low at 24 MHz.
Apple's M1 Max and M1 Pro: New Apple Silicon Generation
However, this discrepancy could be due to a software anomaly, as the performance statistics are consistent with its expectations. Apple introduced the M1 Max, along with the M1 Pro, as the company's new "pro" silicon designs. The M1 Pro features an 8- or 10-core CPU divided between performance cores and at least two efficiency cores. Apple equips its Pro silicon with up to 32 GB of memory, shared between the CPUs and a GPU with up to 16 cores. The M1 Max, available with the 16-inch MacBook Pro, comes standard with a 10-core CPU and offers up to 64 GB of memory, shared with a 14-, 16-, 24-, or 32-core GPU. (Image: Apple)
