Reports from MacRumors have indicated that the new Mac Studio could easily outperform the most powerful and more expensive Mac Pro, if the leaked benchmarks are accurate, as the benchmark results of the Geekbench 5 program that tests the capabilities of a PC’s processor show.
The Mac Studio comes with 20 cores of the M1 Ultra processor and managed to score 1,793 points in the single-core tests, and 24,055 in the multi-core tests.. This is an impressive number compared to the 28-core Intel Xeon W Mac Pro, which scored 1152 and 19,951 points in the same tests.
These results indicate that the M1 Ultra is 21% faster at multi-core and 56% faster at single-core performance, compared to the Mac Pro’s 28 cores. Single-core performance means the M1 Ultra is faster than the Xeon W, despite having fewer cores overall.
While these benchmark results haven’t been definitively verified, they look realistic and correspond to the kind of performance improvements Apple was rolling out at its recent event, where the Mac Studio and M1 Ultra were revealed. The latter basically consists of two M1 Max chips connected together and working as one very powerful behemoth.
The mention of the Mac Pro was shockingly brief at the end of the March event, and CEO Tim Cook said the Mac Studio would fit between the Mac mini and the Mac Pro when it came to power, while also acknowledging that the Mac Pro is now the company’s last Mac not to make the transition. to the Apple M1 chipset.