Apple's latest 16-inch MacBook Pro nearly dethrones the Mac Pro in Geekbench 6, crushes Snapdragon's Elite X

[Redaktion]

Preliminary performance benchmarks for Apple's M3 and M3 Max have recently surfaced online in Geekbench 6's database, and if the results hold true, the M3 Max packs a serious punch and manages to come astonishingly close to the much more expensive Mac Pro featuring the M2 Ultra.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-s-latest-16-inch-MacBook-Pro-nearly-dethrones-the-Mac-Pro-in-Geekbench-6-crushes-Snapdragon-s-Elite-X.764587.0.html

[Julian M]

The M3 Max sounds indeed like a beast, especially with the top variant with 12 performance cores.

I'm more worried about the potential downgrade on the M3 Pro vs M2 Pro, the 12-core combo used to be 8 performance/4 efficiency, and they changed that to 6 of each + they cut down the memory bandwidth.

Apple is on a crusade to upsell the top contenders no matter what, $2-2.5k isn't enough to get stellar performance anymore, you need to spend $3k+.

[splus]

The M3 Max sounds indeed like a beast, especially with the top variant with 12 performance cores.

I'm more worried about the potential downgrade on the M3 Pro vs M2 Pro, the 12-core combo used to be 8 performance/4 efficiency, and they changed that to 6 of each + they cut down the memory bandwidth.

Apple is on a crusade to upsell the top contenders no matter what, $2-2.5k isn't enough to get stellar performance anymore, you need to spend $3k+.

That's just the thing - this laptop costs as much as two normal laptops. But does it perform better than 2 laptops together? Suddenly the whole "amazing" thing crumbles.

I think we need a new ratio now besides performance per watt, something like performance per dollar. The new M3 Max wouldn't fare that great any more.

I don't know why any news outlets and blogs don't talk about it. It would be great if Notebookcheck would include this performance per dollar ratio in their reviews.

[tom123]

Apple isn't selling performance.  It is selling an ecosystem.  Price for performance is exactly what the marketers don't want anyone talking about because it doesn't tell a complete story about what a piece of technology is. 

[RobertJasiek]

Apple isn't selling performance.  It is selling an ecosystem.

Apple sells a combination of performance, ergonomics, ecosystem, paternalism and upselling.