Apple’s newly announced M3-equipped MacBooks are in reviewers’ hands, and Geekbench scores are pouring in. They revealed the potential of the M3 Max chip: it scores around 3,000 in single-core and around 21,000 in multi-core on Geekbench 6. .
These numbers place the M3 Max close to the M2 Ultra within the Mac Pro and Mac Studio, which scores around 2,800/21,000. The M2 Ultra is a 5nm, 60W chip with 24 cores (16 performance, 8 efficiency), while the M3 Max is a 3nm, 30W chip with 16 cores (12 performance, 4 efficiency). The M2 Ultra has a 76-core GPU, while the M3 Max has half that, although obviously the graphics power isn’t tested by Geekbench.
On stage, Apple claimed that the M3 Max CPU is up to 50% faster than its predecessor, the M2 Max. These Geekbench multi-core scores are just below that score, but still show that the M3 Max is about 40% faster.
However, don’t expect the same performance increase from the M3 Pro. On paper, the M3 Pro could be considered inferior to the M2 Pro: the M3 Pro has a 12-core CPU with 6 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores, while the M2 Pro has 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. The memory bandwidth of both the M2 Pro and M1 Pro is rated up to 200 GB/s, while the M3 Pro is rated at 150 GB/s.
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