On March 8, Apple unveiled to the world the new M1 Ultra chip it's two M1 Max chips hooked together with 2,5 terabytes of bandwidth between the two. Apple uses a die-to-die interconnect called UltraFusion to connect the two dies together. This gives specifications on paper that leave the incredible figures of the original M1 presented in 2020 far behind. But now we have the Geekbench first figures and how could they be less, they show us some excellent results.
Apple on Tuesday introduced Mac Studio, which comes with the powerful M1 Max chip by default. However, the company also offers a more expensive model with M1 Ultra, a new chip, which is two M1 Max joined together. To give us a better idea of ​​that performance, a Geekbench test shows that Apple's latest chip outperforms the 28-core Intel Mac Pro. On its website, Apple compares the new chip to the 16-core Intel Xeon W processor found in the Mac Pro. However, a leaked Geekbench result revealed that the M1 Ultra chip it is more powerful than the 28-core Intel Xeon W, which is the highest-end processor available right now in a desktop computer signed by the American brand.
As expected, the M1 Ultra scores 1747 on a single core, which is about the same as other M1 variants (since the main difference between them is the number of cores). However, when it comes to multi-core, the 1-core M20 Ultra scores a 24055 on the Geekbench 5 test. Taking this into account, let's look at a series of figures:
The 3275-core Intel Xeon W-28M processor, which is the best you can get with a Mac Pro, scores 19951 in Multi Core. This means that M1 Ultra is approximately 20% faster than the most expensive CPU available for the Intel Mac Pro.
But it doesn't end here because the new Mac Studio is much more compact and efficient than the Mac Pro. Now, you have to know that the Mac Pro still hasn't been beaten in terms of the ability to combine two Radeon Pro GPUs with 64 GB each, or even add up to 1,5 TB of RAM.