Apple announced several new products yesterday at its Apple Unleashed event. The most prominent announcement was that of the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips coming to the 2021 MacBook Pro models. This revision of the M1 chip increases the core count in the CPU and GPU, and the latter scales up to 32 cores.
A new performance estimate suggests that those cores could be more powerful than those of the PlayStation 5. The Notebookcheck portal conducted an analysis of the M1 Max's GPU cores to estimate performance using the M1 chip as a baseline.
The M1 Max chip would be a performance beast
The results of calculations made by the Notebookcheck portal extrapolated that the 1-core M32 Max could produce approximately 10,4 teraflops of GPU power. That's based on the 1-core M8 chip producing roughly 2,6 teraflops of GPU power.
In comparison, the PS5 has around 10,3 teraflops, while the Xbox Series X console is capable of around 12,2 teraflops. But it should be noted that teraflops only measure how many floating point calculations the GPU can perform per second, but it does not show actual performance. Although the Xbox series X has a higher number of teraflops but at the moment of truth it works almost at the same level as PlayStation 5. That means that the M1 Max is capable of matching a PS5 in teraflops, it will not make the Mi Max works fully better than the PlayStation.
Previous performance estimates placed the 1-core M32 Max at the level of a mobile RTX 3070 graphics card. Based on the teraflops estimate, it should be closer to the mobile RTX 3060 with 10,9 teraflops of power.
A Geekbench result on Monday showed that the M1 Max more than doubled the performance of the M1 MacBook Pro. But keep in mind that it is a preliminary benchmark and when push comes to shove when it reaches consumers, its power may be compromised by different factors.
Source: Digital Trends
