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Just after Apple’s event introducing the new MacBook Pro models with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, the first benchmark for the high-end M1 Max chip with 10-core CPU and 32-core GPU appears to have surfaced.
The chip features a single-core score of 1749 and a multi-core score of 11542, which offers double the multi-core performance of the M1 chip that’s in the 13-inch MacBook Pro machine.
Based on these numbers, the M1 Max outperforms all Mac chips with the exception of the Mac Pro and iMac models equipped with Intel’s high-end 16 to 24-core Xeon chips. The 11542 multi-core score is on par with the late 2019 Mac Pro that is equipped with a 12-core Intel Xeon W-3235.
The machine with the chip in question is running macOS 12.4, which we have seen in our analytics, but it’s worth noting that we can’t confirm with 100 percent certainty that this is an authentic M1 Max chip. Geekbench’s John Poole said that the processor frequency looked weirdly low, but that the performance scores appear to be in line with what we’d expect to see from a 10-core M1 chip.
He said that the M1 Max’s efficiency cores can potentially impact the frequency, but not to the degree seen here. It’s possible that there’s an issue with Geekbench on the new chips that needs to be resolved.
We should be able to confirm whether this is an authentic M1 Max chip in the coming days as the new MacBook Pro models are expected to arrive to customers next Tuesday and media review units will be going out even sooner than that.
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