As he is customary with all the new Apple chips, the Geekbench analysis analysis analysis numbers first disclosed For the M3 Ultra in the new Mac studio has arrived. But before thinking that the figures are disappointing or proof that Apple Fud the figures, let's put them in context.
As indicated, the benchmarks for a Mac 15.14 performing an ultra m3 with a CPU of 32 cores and 256 GB of RAM are 3221 (Monocore) and 27749 (multi-night). These are impressive numbers, of course, but comparable to our own figures for the M4 Max in MacBook Pro, which measured 3804 (Monocore) and 25343 (Multi-Fond).
We expect the monocore score to be lower because it is an M3 vs an M4, but the multi-core score should theoretically be much higher than a gain of 8%. The M3 Ultra has 24 performance cores against only 12 on the M4 Max. Although it is not a comparison of apple apples – the M3 and M4 fleas are built on different generations of 3 NM architecture – it is always surprising to see such low scores. So what's going on?
The simple explanation is that Geekbench 6, which was used to test the Mac here, is not designed to manage the main processors. As explained in an article in Servethehome, which tests high -end PC equipment, “high -end work stations and still high -end office processors come up against scaling problems with Geekbench 6.” In particular, Geekbench seems to have problems in the event of more than 16 performance cores, which is the case with the M3 Ultra. (It should be noted that the M2 Ultra had Exactly 16 performance nuclei therefore did not encounter the same problem.)
In the tests of Servethehome on the 64 cores AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3995WX, they also obtained numbers which were not indicative of the real performance of the chip. This was not the case with Geekbench 5, but the developer Primate Labs “transferred to smaller CPUs” with the Geekbench 6 update. It is logical to focus on phones and mid -range PCs, because Geekbench is a tool so popular with consumers. It's great for iPhones and MacBook Airs, but not so much for $ 7,000 Supercomplers.
It should also be noted that the M3 Ultra is likely to publish its greatest gains on the graphic side. With a GPU of 60 or 80 cores, the M3 Ultra is likely to blow the M4 Max in performance tests of the real world. We will just need to wait a little longer to see these figures.
