Apple M6 Pro Sets New Single-Core Record in Geekbench 7

Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7

Apple M6 Pro Sets New Single-Core Record in Geekbench 7

A Geekbench 7 result for the Apple M6 Pro has posted a single-core score of 4150, the highest yet recorded in the benchmark. The 18-core chip, running macOS 27.0, also achieved a multi-core score of 37565. The test system, identified as Mac18,6, was equipped with 48 GB of memory and a base frequency of 4.78 GHz.

Mac18,6 4150 Single-Core Score 37565 Multi-Core Score
  1. GeekyBear

    There are also leaks for the M5 Ultra & Base M6.

    M5 Ultra CPU:

    https://browser.geekbench.com/search?k=parkdale_cpu&q=mac17%...

    M5 Ultra GPU:

    https://browser.geekbench.com/search?k=grand_gpu&q=mac17%2C1...

    Base M6 CPU:

    https://browser.geekbench.com/search?k=parkdale_cpu&q=mac18%...

    Base M6 GPU:

    https://browser.geekbench.com/search?k=grand_gpu&q=mac18%2C5

    The Base M6 CPU single core is averaging a bit over 4000 on Geekbench 7.

    For comparison, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 averages 3161 on the same test.

    https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/amd-ryzen-9-9950x3d...

    The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus averages 2940

    on the same test.

    https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-ultra-7-...

  2. gainsurier

    Sorry everyone, this submission appears to be forged—the L1 and L2 caches don't match up m4 pro and m5 pro

  3. galad87

    Cool, but Apple didn't announce any M6 Pro yet, so where is this coming from?

  4. asimovDev

    https://www.cpubenchmark.net/single-thread/

    https://browser.geekbench.com/v7/cpu/singlecore

    here are the leaderboards for anyone else who was curious

  5. a3w

    >4k? Thought not would barely twice that of an 15 year old CPU, but it of course is geekbench 7, not 6 or 5!

    So this is different and faster than such a result in the old scoring would have implied.

  6. mdp2021

    And how much would it cost?

    In the current times performance/price seems to be increasingly important.

    (Not to mention several other factors that once did not even exist, or were irrelevant.)

  7. rbanffy

    Has anyone tried to run Geekbench on POWER11 or a Telum II?

  8. aurareturn

    Wait. What?

    This is actually the M6 Pro and not the M6. It has 18 CPU cores to the M6's 12. The scores line up as well.

    Reports have said all along that Apple is skipping M6 Pro/Max to focus on M7 generation.

    I can't remember the last time an Apple chip got leaked like this.

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