M3 Ultra on par with M4 Max in CPU benchmark performance

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Apple this week announced a new generation of Mac Studio, and surprisingly it is available with two different chip families:...
M3 Ultra and M4 Max. While the company claims that the M3 Ultra is up to twice as fast as the M4 Max in some workloads, benchmark tests show that there isn't a huge difference between the CPU of the two chips.

M3 Ultra is not that much faster than M4 Max when it comes to CPU

A recent Geekbench 6 test run on the new Mac Studio equipped with the high-end version of the M3 Ultra chip gives us an idea of what to expect from the most powerful chip ever designed by Apple. With a 32-core CPU, M3 Ultra scored 3221 in single-core and 27749 in multi-core. While the numbers are impressive, they're not exactly much higher than the score obtained by the M4 Max chip in the Geekbench test.

For comparison, the high-end version of the M4 Max chip with a 16-core CPU scored 3921 in single-core and 25650 in multi-core. This means that the M4 Max has faster CPU cores than the M3 Ultra, although the…
Filipe Espósito
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