First M2 Max benchmark scores appear to leak on Geekbench - Ars Technica

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If the scores are legit, they amusement reasonably humble gains compared to the M1 Max.

Samuel Axon - Nov 30, 2022 11:26 p.m. UTC

Enlarge / The 2021 16-inch MacBook Pro.

Samuel Axon

It looks similar the archetypal benchmarks of Apple's upcoming M2 Max spot person leaked successful Geekbench's database.

When users tally the over-the-shelf mentation of the Geekbench 5 benchmarking tool, the scores are logged to a nationalist database of results and are tied to entries for circumstantial hardware. In this case, the result (which was discovered by a Twitter user) is listed nether a merchandise labeled "Mac14,6" moving the as-yet-unreleased operating strategy "macOS 13.2 (Build 22D21)." The introduction besides noted that the spot had 12 cores.

The spot successful question is apt destined for MacBook Pro and Mac Studio models that volition motorboat sometime adjacent year. As for the results: The wide single-core people is 1,853, and the multicore people is 13,855. The much granular scores similar crypto, integer, and floating constituent mostly way on the aforesaid lines erstwhile compared to this chip's predecessor, the M1 Max.

If those results are some legit and typical of the last product, they mightiness beryllium a disappointment for some. Compared to our Geekbench 5 tests of a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Max, that's astir a 6 percent betterment successful single-core show and an 11 percent bump for multicore.

That show quality isn't excessively acold disconnected from comparisons betwixt the lower-end M1 and M2 that person already been introduced, though, truthful it's not excessively astonishing if it's accurate.

That said, determination are respective caveats to consider. First, these synthetic benchmarks tin beryllium bully for a ballpark thought of comparative show betwixt devices, but that doesn't mean they ever bespeak real-world performance. Second, the M2 Max results seen present mightiness not correspond the last product. Finally, they mightiness not beryllium existent astatine all.

So yes, those are a batch of caveats. Ars readers volition cognize to instrumentality this with an full lb of salt—but it's absorbing to spot and speculate astir successful immoderate case.