The Macbook Pro and Air powered by Apple M2 arrived last June and as a successor to Apple M1 SoC launched back in 2020. With the onset of M2, both Apple M2 Pro and M2 Max are the logical incremental variants that are awaiting their emergence on Apple devices.
Cut to now, we have spotted an unreleased Apple Mac machine on Geekbench spotting an Apple M2 Max chip. Unlike the M2 which maxed out at 64GB of configurable RAM, the M2 Max offers up to 96GB of RAM onboard.
Apple Mac with M2 Max SoC Spotted on Geekbench
An unreleased Mac powered by M2 Max SoC has been spotted on Geekbench showing incredible scores and configurations alike.
Dubbed with the model number Max 14.6, both Geekbench 5 benchmark listings show the Apple M2 Max sitting under the hood. In one of the listings, the device scored 1,889 and 14,586 points while in another, it scored 1,853 and 13,855 points on single-core and multi-core tests. The moniker could be for the next-gen MacBook Pro or Mac Studio although nothing can be set in stone at the moment.
The Geekbench listing gives a peek into the configuration as well. We have an Apple Max M2 right here with a 12-core setup clocked at 3.54GHz frequency. It comes paired with a 64KB L1 data cache, a 128KB L1 instruction cache, and a 4MB L2 cache onboard. Last year, the M1 Max arrived with almost the same setup albeit with a 10-core CPU. It is 320MHz faster than M1 Pro for some context.
What’s more exciting is the fact that the upcoming Mac device powered by Apple M2 Max comes with up to 96GB of configurable RAM variants. It is 50% more than the current generations of MacBook Pro devices that offer up to 64GB of RAM storage. Apple M2 chip was fabbed on a 5nm process from TSMC, however, it remains unclear what process Apple will use for both M2 Pro and M2 Max.
We have caught the whiff that the chip could be fabbed on a 3nm process which takes it miles apart from 5nm process offering significant gains in efficiency and performance.
The Cupertino-based giant is expected to launch M2-powered 14” and 16” MacBook Pro sometime in 2023 although they were expected to arrive in October/November this year but things didn’t fall into place and thus, delayed untill 2023. There’s iMac in the pipeline along with Mac Pro powered by Apple silicon which has been long rumored.
