MacBook Pro Lineup Now Includes M4 Max Chips
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The M4 Max is the most powerful chip in Apple's lineup, and an early test shows that the MacBook Pro leaves the Mac Studio or Mac Pro with the M2 Ultra in the dust.
Late Thursday, supposed M4 Pro benchmarks appeared on Geekbench that appear to show the M4 Pro is an extremely powerful chip. On Friday, M4 Max benchmarks all but cemented the M4 line’s status as the most powerful chips Apple has ever made.
A benchmark test of the Mac16.5, a 16-inch MacBook Pro, appeared in the Geekbench results browser early Friday. The listing says it uses an M4 Max chip with 16 cores split into 12 performance cores and four efficiency cores, and a clock speed of 1.5GHz.
The listing’s headline numbers say the Mac scored 4,060 on Geekbench’s single-core test and 26,675 on the multi-core version.
Initial Geekbench results for the M4 Pro and M4 Max compared to the M2 Ultra
For comparison, early M4 Pro results were 3,925 on the single-core test and 22,669 on the multi-core test.
Both of these results are much higher than the 2023 Mac Studio with M2 Ultra. That model is listed with 2,777 on the single-core test and 21,351 on the multi-core test, even though the model tested had 24 CPU cores.
As early tests for models that have not yet been released to the public, these numbers should be viewed with caution. It is entirely possible that the numbers are fake or incorrect.
However, they seem fairly realistic and are in line with the performance claims Apple made in its announcements.
As reviewers and other early adopters get to try out the new Mac models, a variety of benchmarks will give a true sense of the performance improvements.
However, it does hint at what the M4 Ultra chip could be like. With two M4 Max chips interconnected and thus doubling the cores, the score should also be about twice as good as the M4 Max.
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