Apple's 18-Core M5 Max Topples 32-Core M3 Ultra In Early Benchmarks

Regardless of how you may feel about Apple as a company, you have to tip your hat at Tim Cook and the crew for making some impressive strides in their in-house chip designs. The latest evidence of this can be seen in preliminary benchmarks for Apple's fresh-out-of-the-oven M5 Max that is one of the chip options on the latest-generation MacBook Pro. Over on Geekbench, leaked results indicate that it's not only the fastest chip Apple ever designed, it also comes out ahead of the latest x86 chips by AMD and Intel.

Naturally, caveats abound with this sort of thing. For one, these are leaked results and must be viewed as unofficial. Secondly, Geekbench is certainly not the end-all, be-all when it comes to evaluating performance. Geekbench results are useful in a broader context when other benchmarks are also thrown into the mix, but by itself, Geekbench doesn't ...