Apple's M5 Ultra chip shows significant performance gains in first Geekbench 7 result
An early Geekbench 7 benchmark for Apple's M5 Ultra chip indicates roughly 30% higher single-core and 35% higher multi-core scores than the M3 Ultra, with the top-end Mac Studio starting at $6,799.
An unverified Geekbench 7 entry posted today shows the highest-end 36-core M5 Ultra chip achieving a single-core score of 3,774 and a multi-core score of 52,516. By comparison, the top M3 Ultra configuration recorded 2,920 single-core and 39,059 multi-core points. The data suggests the M5 Ultra delivers about 30% faster single-core and 35% faster multi-core performance than the M3 Ultra, aligning with Apple’s claim of up to 1.25× and 1.3× improvements respectively.
Apple plans to launch the new Mac Studio equipped with the M5 Ultra, with a starting price of $6,799 in the United States. The company also announced a Mac Studio variant with an M5 Max chip and a Mac mini featuring M6 and M5 Pro processors, slated for release on September 22.
The benchmark places the M5 Ultra ahead of earlier Apple silicon, scoring roughly 2.25 times higher than the original M1 Ultra and about six times higher than the first-generation M1. GPU results for the M5 Ultra have not yet appeared in the database, and further benchmark submissions are expected to show some variation.