Apple's M5 Ultra and M6 Chips Show Significant Gains in GPU Benchmarks
Early Geekbench 7 results indicate the M5 Ultra delivers up to 59% higher Metal performance than the M3 Ultra, while the M6 posts a 34% improvement over the M5.
Apple's upcoming Mac Studio and Mac mini models will feature new M5 Ultra and M6 chips, whose first GPU benchmark data have been released. The M5 Ultra recorded a Metal score of 366,744 on Geekbench 7, representing a 59% increase over the M3 Ultra's average of 230,420, and its OpenCL performance is comparable to Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card. The M6 achieved a Metal score of 93,217, about 34% higher than the M5's average of 69,563.
A full list of Metal scores shows the M5 Ultra leading the lineup, followed by the M3 Ultra, M5 Max, and other recent Apple silicon variants. Analysts note that real-world performance may differ from benchmark figures.