Impressively fast, well ahead of my 13900k hackintosh. I'll wait for other benchmarks to come in to see if its faster out of sheer curiosity. Still, the minimum price for a 16 core M3 Max MBP is $4000, and that's with only 1tb of storage. Gotta pay a pretty penny for bleeding edge performance/efficiency.
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Wait you can still make a hackintosh?
fully spec'ed macbook pro is insane price, indeed
I don't think the geekebench single core score is all that impressive for Apple M3 Max. It's just matched 13900k which is almost an year old. Sure it has the efficiency advantage but I don't think that's enough especially with Intel's new meteor lake chips on the horizon.
AMD has the best chance to compete with multicore efficiency but their mobile processors only go upto 8 cores. The 16 cores 7945hx is basically a repurposed desktop chip. Again zen 5 is on the horizon and I don't see apple's number to be unbeatable considering the only advantage apple holds now is efficiency.
Being around 4 times more power efficient is a huge advantage in a laptop!
Sure. But in general you must have both the performance and efficiency advantage. If you only have efficiency advantage it leaves the door wide open for competitiors to match it pretty easily. The competitors are also a node behind and the only advantage going for you is efficiency. That's not great.
It should be way more than 4 times more efficient. Especially ST. When running the Geekbench ST test, it averages 0.3w - 5w of power.
What is this take. These are laptop chips man. Meteor lake will NOT beat this, there's a reason there's no high end desktop meteor lake part coming.
This is looking comparable to a 13900k that you can put in a thin laptop, have 20+ hours of battery life and barely ever hear the fans. How is that not impressive?
Whoa... Oryon's Linux results are crazy
Good. Now bring a proper benchmark