The "world's most powerful chip" Apple M2 Ultra scores on par with Intel Core i9-13900K and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X in Geekbench

Apple unveiled the M2 Ultra chip at WWDC 2023 this week. It was recently tested in the Geekbench benchmark.

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The M2 Ultra is Apple's highest-performing processor, and the company itself calls it "the world's most powerful chip ever made for a personal computer." Despite such a claim, in Geekbench in Single-Core mode, the M2 Ultra was behind two Intel and AMD platforms.

The M2 Ultra's result in Single-Core was 1,956 points. The Intel Core i9-13900K scored 2322 points in this mode, while the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X scored 2290 points, which is about 30% more than the Cupertino-based company's new product.

In Multi-Core mode, the Apple M2 Ultra chip bounced back. With a score of 27,945 points, it was 2% more powerful than the Intel Core i9-13900K. Superiority over AMD Ryzen 9 7950X exceeds 12.7%

M2 Ultra is made on 5 nm technology. The processor has 134 billion transistors. CPU performance compared to M1 Ultra has increased by 20%, graphics has increased by 30%, and Neural Engine is 40% faster.

Source: Geekbench