The new MacStudio launched by Apple earlier this week is equipped with the high-end chip M3 Ultra. Officials claim the M3 Ultra chip is the "highest performing chip ever," and unverified benchmark results seem to confirm this. In individual results, the 32-core M3 Ultra chip's multi-core CPU score was 27,749 points, about 8% faster than the 16-core M4 Max chip that previously held the performance record. The results also show that the M3Ultra chip is 30% faster than the 24-core M2Ultra chip.
However, thanks to generational advantages, the single-core CPU performance of the M4Max chip is nearly 20% higher than that of the M3Ultra chip.
We're now waiting for other M3 Ultra benchmark results to verify if these scores are accurate, as they appear to be on the low side compared to expectations. For example, Apple advertises that the performance of the M3 Ultra chip is 1.5 times that of the M2 Ultra chip, so the 30% improvement mentioned above seems to be closer to 50%. However, Apple has never said how the performance of the M3 Ultra chip compares to the M4 Max chip.
As always, actual performance may vary somewhat, but synthetic benchmark tools like Geekbench6 provide a useful baseline for comparison. We wouldn't be surprised if the Geekbench6 test results for the M3 Ultra chip have higher performance scores.