![]() ![]() So with the M2 Pro having the potential for the same count of high-performance cores (8) as the M1 Max, it should come as no surprise that the M2 Pro can exceed the M1 Max on a strictly CPU benchmark test. Because the M1 Max has double the number of performance cores compared to the base M2, it outperforms the M2 on multicore (Mac Studio M1 Max: 12336, MBP M2: 8735), which should be expected. Geekbench shows a single-core score of 1756 for the 2022 Mac Studio with the M1 Max (10 core: 8 high-performance, 2 high-efficiency), but 1900 for the 13-inch 2022 MacBook Pro with the M2 (8 core: 4 high-performance, 4 high-efficiency). This is somewhat old news, especially looking at the single-core comparisons. The M2 Pro Mac mini is available for preorder now and will begin shipping by January 24, 2022. Then in December 2022, a separate benchmark leak showed much better performance. In November 2022, for instance, benchmarks for a Mac with the M2 Max leaked online and appeared to show little improvement. However, benchmark tests are also not definitive. ![]() It appears that Apple has successfully increased the performance of the M2 range over the already notably fast M1. And more significantly, Geekbench scores for M1 Max were typically 1727 single-core and 12643 multi-core. Note that this is comparing the M1 with the M2 Pro, not the base M2. Previous Geekbench scores for the M1 Mac mini, then, have scores of 1651 single-core and 5181 multi-core. Its single-core score is 1952, and multi-core score is 15013.īenchmark test scores may not give a great indication of how a machine will perform in real-world use, but they do give a point of comparison. It appears to be the new M2 Pro version of the Mac mini, in its 12-core CPU configuration, with 16GB of unified memory. While compute performance may give a very superficial overview as to what to expect from the chip, the only way to assess true performance is to subject it to a bevy of benchmarks, which is something that we look forward to doing in the coming weeks.Apple has not yet shipped the Mac mini with M2 Pro, but Geekbench now includes an entry for device identified as "Mac14,12". Irrespective of performance numbers, the take home message here is how Apple has managed to scale performance and efficiency in a manner that's previously unheard of before. GPUs are incredibly complex pieces of silicon, so a GPU with a lower SM count may perform poor in one test and excel in another. SM count alone does not translate to real-world benefits. In the case of the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU, the 30 compute units translate to 3,840 SMs. So, a 32-core M1 Max will have 32*16*8 = 4,096 streaming multiprocessors (SM). ![]() That being said, we do know for a fact that an M1 SoC's core is made of 16 execution units with eight compute units each. Now, there is no standardized definition for what a core and compute unit are when it comes to GPUs and Geekbench's use of the term "compute unit" here may actually refer to the core count that Apple is alluding to in the specs. Geekbench reports the number of compute units in the M1 Max as 32. That is exactly what seems to be happening here. In that article, we had noted that the advantages of these GPUs can vary depending on the exact workflow. Previously, we had seen the M1 Max just inching past the RTX 3060 Laptop in GFXBench, though we were not exactly sure which TGP variant of the Nvidia card was actually used in that test. According to the listing, the M1 Max appears to be sporting 64 GB of unified memory, 10 CPU cores, and 32 compute units.Ĭomparison of OpenCL performance between these two systems shows the Nvidia RTX 3060 Laptop in the to be 51.3% faster than the M1 Max's GPU in the Geekbench 5.4 OpenCL benchmark. In this case, we have a face-off between a Dell featuring a Core i7-11800H and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU and a MacBook Pro 16 with the M1 Max SoC. These scores make for some interesting comparisons. The Geekbench database, too, is being steadily populated with several M1 Max compute scores. Apple's recently announced MacBook Pro 14 and MacBook Pro 16 have begun shipping, and it is likely that several testers may have got their devices already gauging by the steady number of benchmarks we've been seeing of late. ![]()
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