Apple's M5 Ultra and M6 chips show significant GPU performance gains in early Geekbench 7 benchmarks, with the M5 Ultra achieving 59% higher Metal scores than the M3 Ultra and the M6 showing 34% improvement over the M5. New Mac Studio and Mac mini models featuring these chips launch Tuesday.
Apple's M5 Ultra chip achieved Geekbench 7 scores of 3,774 single-core and 52,516 multi-core, representing approximately 30-35% performance gains over the M3 Ultra and aligning with Apple's claimed 1.25-1.3× improvements. The new Mac Studio with M5 Ultra starts at $6,799 and launches September 22.
Apple's M6 chip benchmark results surfaced ahead of next week's Mac mini launch, showing approximately 12% single-core and 27% multi-core CPU performance gains over the M5 chip. The M6 achieves the fastest single-threaded CPU performance across all Macs and PCs in Geekbench 7, validating Apple's performance claims.