The M5 Max is Apple's latest high-end chipset built for the MacBook Pro, and early benchmark results show it easily competes with the M3 Ultra.
Product reviewers are likely running benchmarks on the recently announced MacBook Pros, which means they've begun showing up in Geekbench. The iPad Air with M4 has already had its benchmarks revealed, and the latest ones discovered in the public database are for the M5 Max MacBook Pro.
A post by Reddit user One_TrackMinded in the r/macbookpro subreddit revealed the results for Mac 17,7. It seems these results could be for a 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M5 Max.
The CPU Geekbench results show a 4,268 single-core and 29,233 multi-core score for the M5 Max with an 18-core CPU and 128GB of RAM. The M3 Ultra with 256GB of RAM and a 32-core CPU in a Mac Studio scored 3,261 single core and 28,161 multi-core.
The Metal score grading GPU performance is 232,718. Compare that to the Mac Studio, which scored 243,531.
The M5 Max results are quite impressive and once again show Apple's ability to consistently increase performance in Apple Silicon.
As we've said before, Geekbench is a good comparison tool, but isn't an exact science. Various external factors affect results, and it isn't a direct representation of real-world performance.
The M5 Max will be a powerful chipset. Customers can spend $7,349 on a maxed-out MacBook Pro if they choose, and the processor won't be a letdown.
It's been a busy week of Apple releases. Pre-orders for products like the MacBook Pro with M5 Max ship on March 11, so it won't be a long wait before more testing and public benchmarks can be performed.
