The first M1 Ultra benchmark has appeared on Geekbench following yesterday’s Apple event, and the numbers confirm that the M1 Max is definitely able to outperform the highest-end Mac Pro as claimed by Apple.
A Mac Studio, labeled a Mac13,2, with a 20-core M1 Ultra was benchmarked, boasting a single-core score of 1793 and a multi-core score of 24055.
As a comparison, the highest-end Mac Pro with a 28-core Intel Xeon W chip has a single-core score of 1152 and a multi-core score of 19951, meaning the M1 Ultra is 21% faster in multi-core performance. Single-core performance numbers show that the M1 Ultra is 56% faster than the 28-core Mac Pro.
Apple has claimed that the M1 Ultra’s CPU performance is up to 60% faster than the 28-core Mac Pro. This indicates that Apple may have been referring to single-core performance when it claimed those numbers during yesterday’s event.
