Apple unveiled its new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips yesterday (October 18) during an Unleashed event to show off the features of its new 14-inch MacBook Pro 2021 and 16-inch MacBook Pro 2021.

The M1 Pro and M1 Max attracted a lot of attention during the show because they appear to be more powerful versions of Apple's M1 chip, which is already dominating us with its performance in the 13-inch MacBook Pro M1, MacBook Air M1 and Mac Mini M1 The M1 chip attracted a lot of attention at the show. [These two new Apple silicones in the new MacBook Pro, which goes on sale next week (October 26), can be seen for the first time through the M1 Max benchmark results posted on Geekbench. [This is because M1 Max is an even more powerful version of the M1 Pro, which is included by default in the new MacBook Pro, and an even more powerful version of the original M1. It can be configured with up to 10 CPU cores and 32 GPU cores, can use up to 64 GB of RAM, and offers up to 400 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Simply put, Apple's specs make the M1 Max look like a beast of a chip. And sure enough, the results posted on Geekbench this week, purportedly from a MacBook Pro with M1 Max, are consistent with the power of the mighty chip: according to what Geekbench says, a MacBook with 32GB of RAM and a 10-core M1 Max chip Pro scored 1,749 points in the Geekbench 5.4.1 single-core performance test and 11,542 points in the multi-core test.

These are good results, especially in the multi-core test, but not surprising. In fact, it's a bit of a lackluster result after Apple touted this week that its new M1 chip would be a game changer, especially for video professionals on the go.

To make a point of comparison, the single-core score of the M1-equipped Mac Mini running in Geekbench 5.3 (equivalent to 5.4) was 1,744 and the multi-core score was 7,683. This is in the same range as the scores seen on the M1-powered MacBook Pro and Air, suggesting that while Apple's M1 Max chip is indeed a very powerful chip, it is not many orders of magnitude more powerful than the M1.

However, there are some caveats that cast a shadow over these supposed M1 Max benchmarks: as Tom's Hardware points out, the M1 Max has twice as many performance cores as the M1 (8 vs. 4), so one would expect a higher multi-core score It is reasonable to expect it to achieve a higher multi-core score. In addition, these M1 Max benchmarks were likely run on a MacBook Pro running a pre-release version of macOS Monterey (Build 21E140a).

Furthermore, the M1 Max has a very low base frequency of 24 MHz, which could easily be explained by the fact that Geekbench has not (yet) accurately identified the capabilities of the M1 Max, but such a failure raises doubts about whether these scores truly reflect the hardware's capabilities This raises doubts as to whether or not these scores truly reflect the capabilities of the hardware.

We will have to wait until we get the new 14" and 16" MacBook Pros out for review to know the results. Stay tuned for the results!