The top of the line MacBook Pro 2023 gets its first benchmarks from our friends at iMore (opens in new tab).

Apple's new MacBook Pro and Mac mini M2 are not scheduled to begin shipping until Tuesday (January 24), but they have already begun appearing in the Geekbench 5 CPU benchmark browser.

These test results can be divided into two groups. First, there are five tests conducted on the M2 Max MacBook Pro with 64GB RAM, a significant upgrade over the base model's standard 16GB RAM; second, two conducted on the M2 Max MacBook with 96GB RAM, the largest offered by Apple. These are two tests. The table below also includes results from a Mac mini with M2 Pro, a MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, and a Mac Studio with M1 Ultra.

As we recently saw with the Mac mini with M2 Pro, M2 Max beat M1 Max in both single-core and multi-core tests, as well as all other M1-related chips (except M1 Ultra, which is only available in Mac Studio) and the regular Apple M2 chip It beats the M1 Max in both single-core and multicore tests. [However, the difference between the M2 Max and the M2 Pro is not that great, with the Mac mini benchmark, which is supposed to have the M2 Pro, outperforming the (average) results of the M2 Max/64GB MacBook Pro. This is likely because this benchmark is a CPU performance test and both chips have 12-core CPUs, but the M2 Max has the advantage of a larger GPU and additional RAM capacity (up to 64GB for the M2 Pro). It may also have something to do with the fact that the Mac mini is a desktop machine, allowing the chips to be pushed more powerfully without having to worry about cooling or power management.

If these leaked results have made you determined to get your hands on a new Apple laptop, check out our MacBook Pro 2023 pre-order guide. If you're tempted but still on the fence, rest assured that TG will bring you reviews of all the new Macs as soon as possible.