M6 Chip Benchmark Surfaces Ahead of New Mac Mini Launch Next Week
Key Points:
- The first unverified Geekbench 7 benchmark for Apple's new 2nm M6 chip shows a single-core CPU score of 4,071 and a multi-core CPU score of 22,783, indicating significant performance gains over the M5 chip.
- Compared to the M5 chip, the M6 offers approximately 12% faster single-core and 27% faster multi-core CPU performance, aligning with Apple's claims of leading single-threaded performance and up to 1.2× faster multi-threaded performance.
- The M6 chip's single-core score tops all other Macs and PCs in the Geekbench 7 database, surpassing even the M5 Max and Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme chips.
- In terms of multi-core performance, the M6 ranks below Apple's Ultra and Max series chips but is more than 2.5 times faster than the original M1 chip.
- The new Mac mini with the M6 chip and other updated Apple devices will launch on September 22, with GPU benchmark results for the M6 still pending.