The first GPU benchmark results for Apple’s new M5 Ultra and M6 chips have surfaced, ahead of the launch of the new Mac Studio and Mac mini models on Tuesday. If you’re interested in the CPU results, we shared them earlier this week.
So far, the M5 Ultra has achieved an up to 59% higher Metal score (366,744) on Geekbench 7 compared to the M3 Ultra’s average score of 230,420, and the chip’s OpenCL score is roughly in line with that of NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 4080.
As for the M6 chip, it has so far achieved up to a 34% higher Metal score (93,217) compared to the M5 chip’s average score of 69,563.
| Chip | Metal partition |
|---|---|
| M5 Ultra | 366,744 |
| M3 Ultra | 230 420 |
| M5 Max | 225,606 |
| M2 Ultra | 201 144 |
| M4 Max | 189,301 |
| M1 Ultra | 150,098 |
| M3 Max | 146,550 |
| M5 Pro | 130,896 |
| M2 maximum | 130,091 |
| M1 Max | 107,711 |
| M4 Pro | 107,354 |
| M6 | 93,217 |
| M2 Pro | 77,176 |
| M3 Pro | 72,637 |
| M5 | 69,563 |
| M1 Pro | 63,531 |
| M4 | 51,818 |
| M3 | 46,033 |
| M2 | 40,529 |
| M1 | 27,277 |
As always, actual performance will vary.
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