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Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7

41 points • by gainsurier • today at 6:19 AM • 29 comments • view on HN

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hncbw02z5a • today at 9:33 AM

Spoofing IDs is easy, matching the timing curves isn't. That's the giveaway.

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a3w • today at 9:24 AM

>4k? Thought not would barely twice that of an 15 year old CPU, but it of course is geekbench 7, not 6 or 5!

So this is different and faster than such a result in the old scoring would have implied.

galad87 • today at 8:40 AM

Cool, but Apple didn't announce any M6 Pro yet, so where is this coming from?

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aurareturn • today at 8:43 AM

Wait. What?

This is actually the M6 Pro and not the M6. It has 18 CPU cores to the M6's 12. The scores line up as well.

Reports have said all along that Apple is skipping M6 Pro/Max to focus on M7 generation.

I can't remember the last time an Apple chip got leaked like this.

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leptons • today at 9:29 AM

Under exactly what cooling conditions? And for how long did it sustain this speed?

mdp2021 • today at 8:49 AM

And how much would it cost?

In the current times performance/price seems to be increasingly important.

(Not to mention several other factors that once did not even exist, or were irrelevant.)

hnd9q09qk4 • today at 9:40 AM

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wartywhoa23 • today at 9:02 AM

Highest among what? Is it highest among M* CPUs? Then what's the news, that the next gen is faster than the previous? Now that's a newsflash!

Or is it just an early advertisement, which it is? As in, "true Apple devotees, start planning your kidney sales to afford buying the M6 Pro among the first".

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OsrsNeedsf2P • today at 9:22 AM

I'm currently in the middle of porting a game from 2004 to run on MacOS via wine. On a 5000$ Macbook Pro, I'm getting about 4 FPS. This has multiple causes, including the game being single threaded and running through Rosetta, but damn is it hard to get good single core performance out of Macbooks.

Out of curiosity, I also ported the game to arm Linux with fex + upstreamed the wine patches in about a third the time and there's no FPS issues

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