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M5 Ultra and M6 Chip Benchmark Results Reveal Graphics Performance

The first GPU benchmark results for Apple's new M5 Ultra and M6 chips have surfaced, ahead of the new Mac Studio and Mac mini models launching on Tuesday. If you are interested in CPU results, we shared those earlier this week.

M6 M5 Ultra Chips
So far, the M5 Ultra has achieved up to a 59% higher Metal score (366,744) on Geekbench 7 compared to the M3 Ultra's average score of 230,420, and the chip's OpenCL score is roughly in line with NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 4080.

As for the M6 chip, it has so far achieved up to a 34% higher Metal score (93,217) compared to the M5 chip's average score of 69,563.

Chip Metal Score
M5 Ultra 366,744
M3 Ultra 230,420
M5 Max 225,606
M2 Ultra 201,144
M4 Max 189,301
M1 Ultra 150,098
M3 Max 146,550
M5 Pro 130,896
M2 Max 130,091
M1 Max 107,711
M4 Pro 107,354
M6 93,217
M2 Pro 77,176
M3 Pro 72,637
M5 69,563
M1 Pro 63,531
M4 51,818
M3 46,033
M2 40,529
M1 27,277

As always, real-world performance will vary.

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gusping Avatar
31 minutes ago at 01:00 pm
M6 isn't far off the M4 Pro (just thinking in the context of the Mac mini). Insane.
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IvyKing Avatar
12 minutes ago at 01:19 pm

M6 isn't far off the M4 Pro (just thinking in the context of the Mac mini). Insane.
And a M6 Pro, if there would be such a beast, wouldn't be far off from a M4 Max as far as Graphics is concerned. CPU performance and memory would be a different story. Makes me wonder what the M7 has in store.
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CalMin Avatar
24 minutes ago at 01:06 pm
Some impressive hardware - especially when you consider the performance per watt.

I mean it's getting to the point where only AI workloads and certain intensive creative work can make use of this sort of compute. My M1Pro with 16GB RAM is still perfectly serviceable for pretty much anything that normal computer users need. I mean the hardest I push it is 4 x 4K multicam in FCP and it crunches through that quite happily. I'm not sure what I'd to with an M5 ultra!
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Finally I can browse even faster!
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