M2 Ultra With 24-Core CPU Is 18 Percent Faster Than M1 Ultra In New Multi-Core Performance Leak, SoC Competes With Latest Desktop Parts

Shortly before the new Mac Studio and Mac Pro go on sale, the M2 Ultra powering both machines has shown up on a previous version of Geekbench, showing the single-core and multi-core gains compared to the M1 Ultra. Keep in mind that the latest Geekbench 6 version was not used to test out Apple's latest and greatest SoC, so the difference you are about to see will likely have some variation with this benchmark.
M2 Ultra is also marginally faster than the latest Core i9-13900K, and has a higher lead compared to Ryzen 9 7950X
The Geekbench 5 scores were tested out by a Facebook page named HA-MAC-News , showing that the Mac Studio equipped with the M2 Ultra sporting a 24-core configuration can deliver some serious single-core and multi-core performance. Being 18 percent faster than its direct predecessor, the M1 Ultra, Apple’s fastest chipset also marginally beats Intel’s 24-core Core i9-13900K while gaining a higher lead against AMD’s 16-core Ryzen 9 7950X.
The M2 Ultra tested was found in the latest Mac Studio
Keep in mind that between the M1 Ultra and M2 Ultra, Apple did not change the manufacturing process, as it stuck with TSMC’s 5nm node and still managed to gain some healthy multi-core gains along the way. While it is puzzling that Geekbench 6 was not used to tax the 24-core M2 Ultra, Vadim Yuryev was kind enough to share the multi-core results on Twitter, but they were based on his calculations.
The M2 Ultra is only slightly faster than Intel's fastest desktop chip in Geekbench 5
According to the YouTuber, since the M1 Ultra’s Geekbench 6 score is already registered, in which the SoC obtains a multi-core score of 17,551 , he states that the M2 Ultra would have obtained a score of 20,710  in the same benchmark based on that 18 percent multi-core difference in Geekbench 5. Of course, we will have to wait for the official results to come through to verify these claims, but assuming that his calculations are on point, Apple has done well on this front.
Against the Ryzen 9 7950X, the M2 Ultra has a bigger lead
The Mac Studio tested with the M2 Ultra featured a whopping 192GB of unified RAM, but it is unlikely that a boatload of memory would have introduced a massive difference to the multi-core score. We have also found out that the fastest clock speed registered by the chipset was 3.68GHz, while on the M1 Ultra, it was 3.22GHz, and the latter could only go up to a 20-core CPU. We are excited to share the Metal score when the results come out, so stay tuned for those. For now, let us discuss these Geekbench 5 scores in the comments.
Written by Omar Sohail