While OpenCL returned a higher (faster) score on the M1 Max, there was essentially no difference in Cinebench scores:

Multi-core scores were 12532 (Pro) and 12805 (Max).Ĭinebench and Geekbench Compute (OpenCL) scores are harder to interpret.

Single-core scores were 1774 (Pro) and 1790 (Max).

Single- and multi-core scores were essentially the same: Geekbench was used to compare performance on more general computation tasks. Performance on the two chips was identical for integer, floating-point, NEON and Accelerate. For these tests, E cores were assessed with a workload of two threads run at minimum QoS, which fully loads both the E cores and runs them at maximum frequency, without any contribution from the P cores. This has the strange effect that the time taken to run a single-threaded test is nearly twice that required to run two threads. The E cores on both chips are managed similarly by macOS: with a single low QoS thread, they’re run at low frequency (below 1 GHz), but when loaded with two or more threads, frequency is boosted to 2 GHz. Performance on the two chips was identical for integer, floating-point, NEON (vector processor) and Accelerate (Apple’s performance library, presumed here to use NEON too). The P cores were assessed with a workload of eight threads run at maximum Quality of Service (QoS), which fully loads all the P cores without any contribution from the E cores. These were tested separately using tight loops of assembly code in AsmAttic.

My own app Mints for Neural Engine performance.īoth the M1 Pro and Max have the same general-purpose CPU cores: eight Performance (P) cores, and two Efficiency (E) cores.

My own app Stibium for SSD performance,.

My own app AsmAttic for in-core performance,.

Mac Studio M1 Max, 24-core GPU, 32 GB memory, 2 TB SSD, costing £2599, to which you must add a keyboard, input device and display.

MacBook Pro 16-inch M1 Pro, 16-core GPU, 32 GB memory, 2 TB SSD, costing £3,399.

Now that I have a Studio (Max) sat behind my M1 Pro MacBook Pro, this article compares their benchmark results.

A month ago, I explained what performance to expect in Apple’s new Mac Studio models.

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