It’s no gaming PC, but new benchmarks show that Apple’s flagship M1 Max has some serious graphical capabilities.
For anyone hoping the M1 Max-powered MacBook Pro range would be the graphical powerhouse we were promised during the Apple Unleashed event on October 18, fresh benchmarks may have revealed some good news. As reported by MacRumors, the first Metal Benchmark on Geekbench 5 for the M1 Max SoC (system-on-a-chip) has peeled back the curtain on what we can expect from the built-in GPU, achieving a score of 68,870. This is over three times higher than that of the original M1 SoC, which was released last year and secured 20,581 points in the same test. As with all early benchmarks, take a few pinches of salt with this information until the product has officially hit the market for testing, but if it does prove to be genuine, the commentary on social media regarding this latest generation of MacBook Pro laptops finally feeling like ‘professional’ workstations again feels incredibly valid. We’ve had a few other early benchmarks for the M1 Max, but nothing specific relating to its graphical capabilities. In fact, people have been comparing the chip against the Sony PlayStation 5 console by calculating teraflops, but this isn’t an ideal way of working out how well your new Apple device will cope with demanding tasks like video editing or rendering.
