M1 Max *slower* in Studio than in 16inch MBP? Geekbench results

[TJ82]

Am I missing something or is the M1 Max slower in Geekbench 5 results for the Studio than in the 16-inch MBP? I was expecting it to be somewhat better performant.


Mac Studio M1 Max
Single: 1728
Multi: 11518

MacBook Pro 16 inch M1 Max
Single: 1778
Multi: 12608

M1 Max Studio: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/13434167

M1 Max MBP: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/13447816

 

[Pressure]

Yeah, wait for actual benchmarks and reviews.

The new Mac Studio could be indexing or thousand of other background activities based on the user.

Otherwise it seems within margin of error.

 

[mikeboss]

there are a few results from Mac Studio M1 Max, most of them look okay to me:
https://browser.geekbench.com/search?utf8=✓&q=mac13%2C1+m1+max

 

[TJ82]

there are a few results from Mac Studio M1 Max, most of them look okay to me:
https://browser.geekbench.com/search?utf8=✓&q=mac13%2C1+m1+max

Good scores, but 5 runs and none have a higher single core score. 2 from 5 have a slightly higher multi core.

Definitely not seeing a bump in power from the new design and I’m not convinced we’ll see much different as these units are a week away from release. Bit odd, and wondering why. Hopefully things are actually better on launch day, or else it speaks to poor design or a bottleneck.

 

[Mike Biggen]

Good scores, but 5 runs and none have a higher single core score. 2 from 5 have a slightly higher multi core.

Definitely not seeing a bump in power from the new design and I’m not convinced we’ll see much different as these units are a week away from release. Bit odd, and wondering why. Hopefully things are actually better on launch day, or else it speaks to poor design or a bottleneck.

No it doesn’t. Were you expecting higher performance from the M1 Max in the Studio? I expect it to perform the same as every other machine with an M1 Max. Same as how the M1 performs the same across their lineup with the exception of the cooling-limited Air that throttles after a while.

 

[TJ82]

No it doesn’t. Were you expecting higher performance from the M1 Max in the Studio? I expect it to perform the same as every other machine with an M1 Max. Same as how the M1 performs the same across their lineup with the exception of the cooling-limited Air that throttles after a while.

You should be expecting a slight performance bump with the M1 Max in the Studio. You’ve only seen it in their laptop range. The Studio could have been clocked differently. There are a few variables which would reasonably result in a more performant Studio, compared to the MBPs.

 

[Mike Biggen]

You should be expecting a slight performance bump with the M1 Max in the Studio. You’ve only seen it in their laptop range. The Studio could have been clocked differently. There are a few variables which would reasonably result in a more performant Studio, compared to the MBPs.

It could have been clocked differently, sure. However, I fail to see why that’s something I should expect them to do in this case. As I already mentioned, they didn’t once do that with the entire rest of the Apple silicon transition so I certainly shouldn’t expect that now. It’d be nice to get even more performance I guess, but they’re not exactly slow.

 

[Zdigital2015]

You should be expecting a slight performance bump with the M1 Max in the Studio. You’ve only seen it in their laptop range. The Studio could have been clocked differently. There are a few variables which would reasonably result in a more performant Studio, compared to the MBPs.

Apple has chosen to keep their lineup relatively simply by making sure they can produce and validate a single CPU for multiple use cases, which is fine, as you’re still getting phenomenal power in a very compact package. I think all those SKUs that Intel produces gives us this expectation that Apple should do the same thing, but their CPU portfolio is more akin to MIPS when they went into SGI workstations in the 1990s - a couple
of CPUs at a single clock speed and you simply choose which level CPU you wanted.