The M2 chip Max of Apple would show up on Geekbench. It would be Apple’s next high-performance chip with a 12-core CPU and 96GB of RAM that stopped the counter at 1,853 points in the single core test and 13,855 in the multi core test. Not a performance up to the data: Mac Studio’s M1 Max scores 1,750 points in single core and 12,300 in multi core, so judging by the numbers, the advantage of the successor in terms of performance would be limited.
However, it would not be the first case of a still unofficial chip that is unable to express itself at its best due to a still imperfect optimization, for which the numbers that photograph the performance could be lower than those “at regime”. In support of this hypothesis there is the macOS version detected by the benchmark: macOS 13.2 has not even arrived in beta (the latest version sent to the developers is 13.1), so a firmware engaged in the internal test phase must not be too optimized or stable.
The car that ran on Geekbench a few hours ago was identified with the initials Mac14,6behind which the next generation MacBook Pro or Mac Studio. The new high-performance laptops should have already been official, but the unrest in China and the difficulties Apple is experiencing in producing an adequate number of units of the products already in the range should be the cause of the delay. The top management of Cupertino are hoping for a launch in the first months of 2023.
