The Cupertino chip has come to stay and complete the call: Apple Silicon, which is nothing more than unseating any Intel processor or AMD GPU to place their processors in their products. The last thing left to change was precisely the Mac Pro processor, where the problem was precisely its high performance for professionals. Well, the new M1 Ultra fixes that in one fell swoop and literally crushes Intel’s Xeon W.
Apple M1 Ultra, outstanding performance
The data has been leaked once again on Geebench, where someone already has a Mac in their hands and thanks to this we have the M1 Ultra score. What is offered reveals 1,793 points in Single Core and 24,055 in multicore, which represents a percentage difference of the 21% and 56% compared to the Intel option for the Mac Pro, since it gives an approximate score of 1,152 points and 19,951 points respectively.
This more or less agrees with what Apple mentioned, since it gave the key figure: +60% vs. Xeon W. Therefore, the new Mac Studio that will arrive on March 18 will debut with a significant performance improvement thanks to this M1 Ultra, but what real difference is there against the i9-12900K?
Comparing these two processors is more interesting because they represent the stronghold of each company, although a similar comparison should really be made with the i9-12900KS, for which there is no data, so we will settle for the first.
Apple M1 Ultra vs Intel Core i9-12900K
Here the data is disparate and everything is much closer. Considering that the Apple chip consists of 20 cores (16 high performance and 4 efficiency) vs. Intel’s 8+8, seeing scores of 2,044 points and 19,140 points on average is saying that Intel is ahead and behind at the same time.
This is because on Single Core we have an average score of 14% higher for the i9-12900K, while on Multicore it loses by a twenty% about. Knowing that Apple has 4 more cores, but fewer threads, the comparison is really interesting despite the fact that later the faces will be seen in more optimized software.
And what about AMD? Well, there is nothing good left standing in principle, and we explain ourselves. The Ryzen 9 5950X, which is the spearhead in desktop and architecture, as well as in speed, achieves 1,550 points on average and just over 15,000 in multicore.
This means that AMD would be behind in the first with more than 13% and with an approximate figure of 37% In a second. But of course, its CPU is limited to 144 watts on all boards, so there is room for up to the 200 watts on average projected by both Apple and Intel. Unlocking the range with PBO2 margins are reduced, but it still falls behind by almost 10% and 25% respectively.
In short, Apple hits the nail on the head again, at least a priori, we will have to see how it performs in other suites and benchmarks.