Apple M3 Ultra benchmark shows marginal gains over M4 Max | Infinium-tech
Apple announced its new Mac Studio Desktop earlier this week with M4 Max and All-New M3 Ultra Chips. A version of the new Mac Studios with M3 Ultra has now appeared in a Geekbench 6 listing, giving us our first glimpse in Apple’s top-tear M-series chip.
The listing includes the 32-core CPU of armed chip with 256GB unified memory in the M3 Ultra Mac Studio (MAC15,14). It managed 3,221 single-core score and 27,749 multi-core score.
Mac Studio M3 Ultra Geekbench Scorecard
These results suggest that the M3 Ultra is actually 20% slow in single-core test compared to the McBook Pro 16 with the M4 Max Chip (16-CPU). Multi-core scores show 8% profit for M3 Ultra.
When comparing M3 Ultra Mac Studio against its M2 Ultra-equipped preceding, we jump 13% in single-core score and 25% in multi-core department. This is lower than the 50% CPU performance advantage seen in Apple’s marketing materials.
It should be noted that these are still the initial benchmarks targeting CPU performance, so we have to wait for more official trials and other more GPU-intensive benchmarks where M3 Ultra should show its strength. We should also note that the M3 Ultra uses the first generation of TSMC’s 3Nm process, while the M4-Series get a more efficient second-gene design.
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