M5 Ultra and M6 Chip Benchmark Results Reveal Graphics Performance

M6 isn't far off the M4 Pro (just thinking in the context of the Mac mini). Insane.

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That would make zero sense. You almost never start with a score first. Thats illogical and impractical.

Left column first. If you want to sort by score, put the score in the left column.

I realize the author wanted some score to compare to discreet graphic cards on the PC side but isn’t OpenCL pretty much deprecated on Mac for years now?

Yes. It was deprecated back in 10.14 in favour of Metal: https://developer.apple.com/opencl/

Sadly, there is no comparable metric because Windows and DirectX (coupled with games being built for Microslop's rendering APIs and then ported to macOS's Metal framework) are just not comparable. There are way too many moving parts. Power draw is another huge factor given ARM runs at a sliver of what X86-64 does. 5090s are literally being fried because the voltage is cranked up so high on just one or two pins. Good job Nvidia!

Vulkan is kind of the bridge between macOS and Windows and even then, it still differs quite drastically between the two environments in how it's delivered.

But given that Apple continues to make solid progress while Nvidia and AMD abuse their market dominance (Intel is still asleep at the switch), it's quite likely that if all things were considered equal, Apple may be ahead now. Again, not that it matters when everything is pushed through a translation layer and poorly optimized for the platform to boot, but if you are comparing raw compute vs power draw, Apple excels.

A shame Apple doesn't buy a gaming studio and develop real games made specifically for Apple silicon. Then they could really showcase the true power of their SoCs.

FWIW, Geekbench scores have historically meant nothing in the real world.

edit: I don't know if anyone remembers Infinity Blade II ('//www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ppHAA1OVak'), but that was released on the iPhone 4/4S and is likely the only game specifically designed for Apple silicon (I think Rage might also have been one). Just a glimpse of what is possible and even then, it likely still had roots in Windows given it was built on UE.

Some impressive hardware - especially when you consider the performance per watt.

I mean it's getting to the point where only AI workloads and certain intensive creative work can make use of this sort of compute. My M1Pro with 16GB RAM is still perfectly serviceable for pretty much anything that normal computer users need. I mean the hardest I push it is 4 x 4K multicam in FCP and it crunches through that quite happily. I'm not sure what I'd to with an M5 ultra!

Still slower than RTX 5090. M5 Ultra is only at RTX 4080. Why would Apple kills Mac Pro when they cant even make consumer flagship GPU?

And you need a small modular nuclear reactor to power that RTX 5090.