Apple's latest 16-inch MacBook Pro nearly dethrones the Mac Pro in Geekbench 6, crushes Snapdragon X Elite ↺
During Apple's recent 'Scary Fast' Mac event, the company announced significant upgrades to the MacBook Pro line-up, now powered by the company's latest M3 series chips. Apple claimed remarkable improvements across the line-up, with the standout performer being the new M3 Max, which, according to Apple's claims, is up to an impressive 80% faster in CPU tasks and 50% faster in GPU tasks than the M1 Max.
In a recent Geekbench 6 listing, the M3 Max scored an impressive 21,084 and 2,943 in multi-core and single-core respectively. While the single-core score appears to be slightly below the base M3's score of approximately 3,050, the multi-core score is where the monstrous new M3 Max truly flexes its muscles, coming commendably close to the considerably more expensive M2 Ultra-powered Mac Pro tower and Mac Studio while completely demolishing the M2 Max's 14,497 multi-core score and the recently launched Snapdragon X Elite's multi-core reference score of 15,239.
This achievement is undeniably impressive, positioning Apple well to meet the upcoming challenges posed by Intel's Meteor Lake, and more notably, the Snapdragon X Elite. The latter, also based on the Arm architecture and equipped with 12 performance cores, is set to be a formidable competitor to Apple's M3 line-up in the future.
The M3 Max equipped 16-inch MacBook Pro starts at US$3,599. The lower-end M3 and M3 Pro models will begin shipping next week, while the M3 Max variant will be available to customers later this November.
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