It looks like the first benchmarks of Apple’s upcoming M2 Max chip have been leaked to the Geekbench database.
When users run the standard version of the Geekbench 5 benchmarking tool, the results are entered into a public results database and linked to hardware-specific records. In this case, the result (which was discovered by a Twitter user) is listed under a product labeled “Mac14.6″running the yet-to-be-released operating system “macOS 13.2 (build 22D21)”. The entry also noted that the chip has 12 cores.
If these results are legitimate and represent the end product, they may be disappointing to some. Compared to our Geekbench 5 tests on the 16-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 Max, that’s about a 6 percent improvement in single-core performance and an 11 percent increase in multi-core performance.
However, this performance difference is not too far from the comparison between the lower-end M1 and M2 that have already been presented, so it is not surprising that it is accurate.
However, there are a few caveats to keep in mind. First, these synthetic benchmarks can be useful for getting a rough idea of relative performance between devices, but that doesn’t mean they always reflect real-world performance. Second, the M2 Max results shown here may not reflect the final product. Finally, they may not be real at all.