18 cores beat 96 cores, Apple M5 Max completely beats AMD flagship Ripper 9995WX

Apple processors have always had near-invincible single-core performance. Whether it is the A series of mobile phones or the M series of notebooks, the latest M5 Max not only continues this advantage, but also achieves a leap in multi-core performance. The bad news is that the test data comes from GeekBench, which is also the AppleBench that many people ridicule.

GeekBench 6 database shows, 1The 8-core M5 Max scored 4353 in single-core and 29644 in multi-core.Compared with the 14-core M4 Max, they are 7.4% and 12.6% higher respectively. Compared with the 32-core M3 Ultra, they are also 34.4% and 7.6% higher respectively. The latter was the pinnacle of Apple's previous multi-core performance.

Interestingly, AMD's flagship thread-ripper PRO 9995WX is equipped with up to 96 cores, and its multi-core score is only 25992. The Apple M5 Max is up to 14% higher than it, and its single-core performance is far ahead by 39.4%.

However, in the entire database, AMD 9995WX also has a multi-core running score of 30170, which is invincible, but most of them are not that high, so we will not consider it for the time being.

It should be pointed out thatGeekBench 6 has very good multi-core support for 8-32 core processors, which is naturally very beneficial to Apple. It is difficult for AMD 96 cores to exert their full strength.

in addition,Apple’s high memory bandwidth is also a plus, M5 Max supports up to 128GB LPDDR5X-9600, with 512-bit bit width, the total bandwidth is up to 614GB/s, which is unmatched by any other workstation platform.

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There is also bad news. The M5 Max CPU performance is strong, but the GPU performance is mediocre. The calculation score under GeekBench 6 Metal is only 232718, which is 13.8% higher than the previous generation.

Compared with other GPU graphics cards, M5 Max can easily defeat the most powerful x86 integrated graphics Ryzen AI Max+ 395. Compared with independent graphics cards, it can lead the RTX 5070, but it is not as good as the RTX 5070 Ti. Naturally, the taillights of the RTX 5090 cannot be seen.