Apple M1 Ultra Early Benchmarks Are Out And They're Stunning
The Apple M1 Ultra scores are higher than some of the top-spec CPUs from Intel and AMD. Apple announced the M1 Ultra on March 8 as its new top-of-the-line desktop SoC. The chip powers the company's all-new Mac Studio that comes with the form factor of a Mac mini but the power and versatility of the Mac Pro.
The M1 Ultra comes with a 20-core CPU and a 64-core GPU, along with a 32-core Neural Engine, 800GB/s memory bandwidth, and up to 128GB of Unified Memory. At Apple's event on Tuesday, it claimed that it is up to 3.8x faster than the discontinued Core i9 iMac and up to 60 percent faster than the 28-core Mac Pro with the Intel Xeon W processor.
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The new Geekbench 5 result for what seems to be the Apple M1 Ultra was shared by @BenchLeaks on Twitter on Tuesday. The result shows a stunning multi-core score of 24,055 points, which is higher than Intel's Core i9-12900K, and only a few points off the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X's score. While the Intel chip, with 16 cores and 24 threads, scored only 17,204, the 64-core AMD CPU clocked in with 25,133. As for the M1 Ultra, it comes with 20 cores with a claimed power consumption of just 60W. The Core i9 chip, meanwhile, has a massive TDP of 280W.
While the M1 Ultra crushes the Core i9-12900K in multi-core scores, the Intel chip gets its own back in the single-core benchmarks. While the Apple chip could only notch up 1,793 points on the single-core test, the Intel Core i9 scored an impressive 1,997. However, the M1 Ultra's score was still good enough to beat the Threadripper 3990X, which could muster only 1,213 points in the single-core test. Overall, the results are a big win for the M1 Ultra not
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