Benchmark scores of Apple’s newest M2 Extremely chip have surfaced on-line. The Geekbench 6 numbers point out the M2 Extremely is as much as 20% quicker than its predecessor, the M1 Extremely.
You possibly can configure the 2023 Mac Studio with the M2 Extremely. And it’s the solely possibility you get when shopping for the brand new Mac Professional.
New Mac Professional is cheaper and quicker than the 2019 mannequin
In Geekbench 6, the M2 Extremely scored 2,776 and 21,402 in single-core and multi-core benchmarks, respectively. For comparability, the M1 Extremely scores 2,379 and 17,579 in the identical set of assessments. This means Apple’s M2 Extremely packs a 20% quicker CPU.
Extra impressively, the M2 Extremely scores make the 2023 Mac Professional twice as quick because the 2019 Intel-based Mac Professional. The latter options an Intel Xeon W-3275M CPU packing 28-cores working at 2.5GHz. It scores 1,378 and 10,390 in Geekbench’s single and multi-core benchmarks.
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This CPU was priced at a further $7,000 over the $6,000 base worth of the Mac Professional, taking the overall worth to $13,000+. In lower than 5 years because the 2019 Mac Professional’s launch, the M2 Extremely-powered Mac Professional can present double the efficiency whereas being 50% cheaper.
Apple silicon Mac Professional packs an excellent quicker GPU
Since Geekbench is a CPU-based benchmark, its scores don’t precisely characterize the efficiency bounce in different eventualities. On Apple silicon-optimized workflows, the efficiency bounce over the Intel Mac Professional is even increased. Apple claims the brand new Mac Professional is as much as 3x quicker than the Intel-based mannequin.
For instance, the M2 Extremely can ship the efficiency of seven Afterburner playing cards, which was obtainable as a further $2,000 add-on for the Intel Mac Professional. And the machine can obtain this whereas consuming considerably much less energy and producing much less warmth.
Whereas the GPU scores aren’t obtainable, there ought to be an excellent greater bounce in efficiency, because the M2 Extremely packs considerably extra GPU cores. And if you happen to want much more energy, you may configure the machine with a beefier model of the M2 Extremely packing a 76-core GPU.
