Alleged Apple M2 Max Performance Figures Show Almost 20% Single-Core Improvement

[AleksandarK]

Apple's ongoing pursuit of leading performance in custom silicon packages continues with each new generation of Apple Silicon. Today, we have alleged Geekbench performance figures of the upcoming M2 Max chip, designed for the upcoming Mac devices. Featuring the same configuration with two E-cores and eight P-cores, the chip is rumored to utilize TSMC's 3 nm design. However, that is yet to be confirmed by Apple, so we don't have the exact information. In the GB5 single-thread test, the CPU set a single-core performance target of 1899 points, while the multi-core score was 8737. While last year's M1 Max chips can reach 1787 single-core and 12826 multi-core scores, these configurations are benchmarked in a Mac Studio, which has better cooling and allows for higher clocks to be achieved.

Apples to apples (pun intended) comparison with the M1 Max chip inside of a MacBook Pro version with presumably the same cooling capacity, which gets 1497 single-core and 11506 multi-core score, the new M2 Max chip is 19.4% faster in single-core results. Multi-core improvements should follow, and this M2 Max result should be different from the final product. We await more benchmarks to confirm this performance increase and the correct semiconductor manufacturing node.



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[AdmiralThrawn]

"Alleged" remember that these are apple's own numbers and are most likely not true or incredibly cherry picked. Do not get excited or buy anything based on a benchmark leak.

 

[Nanochip]

M1 and its siblings have a single core score of 1750-1780 or so, not 1497. So this score of 1899 is good, but is a small improvement of 6.6% and certainly not 20%.

 

[Space Lynx]

Don't worry, it will still throttle from temps, cause they can't build a good air cooling design for the life of them. Prettty and thin always comes first for Apple.

I think every review I saw of recent macbooks, talked about lost performance potential due to thermal throttling...

 

[P4-630]

I'll wait for the "M2 Ultra"....

No thanks, no "i" products for me...

 

[mechtech]

I'll wait for the "M2 Ultra"....

No thanks, no "i" products for me...

How about “me” products.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

"Alleged" remember that these are apple's own numbers and are most likely not true or incredibly cherry picked. Do not get excited or buy anything based on a benchmark leak.

Actually, their performance numbers are usually right-on from what they present, especially things like battery life. Still, these aren’t exactly final results, but a leak.

Don't worry, it will still throttle from temps, cause they can't build a good air cooling design for the life of them. Prettty and thin always comes first for Apple.

I think every review I saw of recent macbooks, talked about lost performance potential due to thermal throttling...

This is a tired argument that died with Intel Macs. Their M1/M2 Macs can sustain their performance just fine. Even the passively cooled MBA does pretty well, only losing 5% in CB due to thermal throttling.

 

[Fouquin]

"Alleged" remember that these are apple's own numbers and are most likely not true or incredibly cherry picked. Do not get excited or buy anything based on a benchmark leak.

No these numbers are pretty spot on. The only thing Apple has done with M2 Pro/Max at a core level is increase the clocks a couple hundred megahertz and altered some frequency responses to certain application loads. The power target has changed slightly (from M1 Pro/Max) but otherwise remains around 40W peak target. The cores are almost identical individually to M1. M2's focus is on GPU and fabric improvements.

Featuring the same configuration with two E-cores and eight P-cores

This doesn't align with the core configuration I've seen. Check your source and see if they have actually confirmed core counts, because this ain't it chief. If you're pulling from Geekbench then expect those reported specs to be wrong, or simply reporting the nearest neighbor (which shows to be the 2022 MacBook 13.3" with regular ol' 4+4 M2.)

 

[SSGBryan]

So, roughly the performance of a 65 watt 5700x on a 40 watt package. That is pretty good, power-wise.

Not a reason to move back to Apple however.

 

[BorisDG]

I doubt M2 will be on 3nm. M2 at it's core is based on the A15 archirecture - Avalance/Blizzard. The best which they can do is to shrink it to 4nm just like the A16. I bet the first 3nm chip by Apple will be the A17.

 

[Vayra86]

Meme 2. That is what I read here. Apple can keep their proprietary nonsense where it belongs, its completely irrelevant, just like their fantasy perf numbers