Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) Benchmark, Test and specs
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The Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) has 10 cores with 10 threads and is based on the 1. gen of the Apple M series series. The processor was released in Q3/2021. The Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) scores 1,783 points in the Geekbench 5 single-core benchmark. In the Geekbench 5 multi-core benchmark, the result is 12,693 points.
CPU lineageThe segment in which we have classified the Apple M1 Max (32-GPU). Here you can see if it is a desktop processor or a mobile processor or which processor may be the successor of the Apple M1 Max (32-GPU). |
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| Name: | Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) |
| Family: | Apple M series |
| CPU group: | Apple M1 |
| Segment: | Mobile |
| Generation: | 1 |
| Predecessor: | -- |
| Successor: | Apple M2 Max (38-GPU) |
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
The Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) has 10 CPU cores and can calculate 10 threads in parallel. The clock frequency of the Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) is 3.20 GHz. The number of CPU cores greatly affects the speed of the processor and is an important performance indicator.
| CPU Cores / Threads: | 10 / 10 |
| Core architecture: | hybrid (big.LITTLE) |
| A-Core: | 8x Firestorm |
| B-Core: | 2x Icestorm |
| Hyperthreading / SMT: | No |
| Overclocking: | No |
| A-Core Frequency: | 3.20 GHz |
| B-Core Frequency: | 2.06 GHz |
Internal Graphics
The Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) has integrated graphics, called iGPU for short. Specifically, the Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) uses the Apple M1 Max (32 Core), which has 4096 texture shaders and 512 execution units. The iGPU uses the system's main memory as graphics memory and sits on the processor's die.
| GPU name: | Apple M1 Max (32 Core) |
| GPU frequency: | 1.30 GHz |
| GPU (Turbo): | No turbo |
| Execution units: | 512 |
| Shader: | 4096 |
| Max. GPU Memory: | 32 GB |
| Max. displays: | 3 |
| Generation: | 1 |
| Direct X: | -- |
| Technology: | 5 nm |
| Release date: | Q3/2021 |
Hardware codec support
A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.
| h265 / HEVC (8 bit): | Decode / Encode |
| h265 / HEVC (10 bit): | Decode / Encode |
| h264: | Decode / Encode |
| VP8: | Decode |
| VP9: | Decode / Encode |
| AV1: | No |
| AVC: | Decode |
| VC-1: | Decode |
| JPEG: | Decode / Encode |
Memory & PCIeThe processor can use up to 64 GB memory in 4 (Quad Channel) memory channels. The maximum memory bandwidth is 409.6 GB/s. The memory type as well as the amount of memory can greatly affect the speed of the system. |
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| Memory type: | LPDDR5-6400 |
| Max. Memory: | 64 GB |
| Memory channels: | 4 (Quad Channel) |
| Bandwidth: | 409.6 GB/s |
| ECC: | No |
| PCIe: | 4.0 |
| AES-NI: | Yes |
Thermal ManagementThe thermal design power (TDP for short) of the processor is 30 W. The TDP specifies the necessary cooling solution that is required to cool the processor sufficiently. The TDP usually gives a rough idea of the actual power consumption of the CPU. |
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| TDP (PL1 / PBP): | 30 W |
| TDP (PL2): | -- |
| TDP up: | 60 W |
| TDP down: | -- |
| Tjunction max.: | -- |
Technical details
The Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) is made in 5 nm. The smaller the manufacturing process of a CPU, the more modern and energy-efficient it is. Overall, the processor has 28.00 MB cache. A large cache can greatly speed up the processor's speed in some cases such as games.
| Technology: | 5 nm |
| Chip design: | Chiplet |
| Socket: | -- |
| L2-Cache: | 28.00 MB |
| L3-Cache: | -- |
| Architecture: | M1 |
| Operating systems: | macOS |
| Virtualization: | Apple Virtualization Framework |
| Instruction set (ISA): | ARMv8-A64 (64 bit) |
| ISA extensions: | Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation |
| Release date: | Q3/2021 |
| Release price: | -- |
| Part Number: | APL 1104 |
| Documents: | -- |
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Benchmark results
The benchmark results for the Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) have been carefully checked by us. We only publish benchmark results that have been created by us or that have been submitted by a visitor and then checked by a team member. All results are based on and fullfill our benchmark guidelines.
Screenshots:
Screenshots:
- Geekbench 5.4.1 on Apple MacBook Pro 16.2 (32 GB LPDDR5)
- Geekbench 5.4.1 on Apple MacBook Pro 16.2 (64 GB LPDDR5)
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750G
8C 16T @ 4.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1185G7
4C 8T @ 4.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-11900T
8C 16T @ 4.90 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)
20C 20T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Ultra (64-GPU)
20C 20T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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Intel Core i5-12400
6C 12T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-9900K
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-9900KF
8C 16T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.|
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Intel Core i7-1260P
12C 16T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-12900H
14C 20T @ 5.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 5.00 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Ultra (48-GPU)
20C 20T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Ultra (64-GPU)
20C 20T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
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AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
12C 24T @ 4.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12700
12C 20T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12700F
12C 20T @ 4.00 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12800HX
16C 24T @ 2.00 GHz |
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Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.|
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Apple M1 Ultra (64-GPU)
20C 20T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i5-12600T
6C 12T @ 4.60 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12800H
14C 20T @ 4.80 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12650HX
14C 20T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12650H
10C 16T @ 4.70 GHz |
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Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
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AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3945WX
12C 24T @ 4.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-9920X
12C 24T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-10920X
12C 24T @ 4.40 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-12900HK
14C 20T @ 3.80 GHz |
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Intel Core i9-12900H
14C 20T @ 3.80 GHz |
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iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.|
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Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)
Apple M2 Max (38 Core) @ 1.40 GHz |
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Microsoft XBox Series X
AMD Custom Radeon Graphics (XBox Series X) @ 1.83 GHz |
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Apple M2 Max (30-GPU)
Apple M2 Max (30 Core) @ 1.40 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
Apple M1 Max (32 Core) @ 1.30 GHz |
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Sony Playstation 5
AMD Custom Radeon Graphics (Playstation 5) @ 2.23 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
Apple M1 Max (24 Core) @ 1.30 GHz |
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Apple M2 Pro (12-CPU 19-GPU)
Apple M2 Pro (19 Core) @ 1.40 GHz |
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Blender 3.1 Benchmark
In the Blender Benchmark 3.1, the scenes "monster", "junkshop" and "classroom" are rendered and the time required by the system is measured. In our benchmark we test the CPU and not the graphics card. Blender 3.1 was presented as a standalone version in March 2022.|
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Intel Core i7-11700K
8C 16T @ 4.50 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-1280P
14C 20T @ 3.00 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X
12C 24T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 14-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Pro (10-CPU 16-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
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Intel Xeon E5-2697A v4
16C 32T @ 2.80 GHz |
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Intel Xeon E7-4890 v2
15C 30T @ 3.40 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750GE
8C 16T @ 3.60 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Apple M1 Max (24-GPU)
10C 10T @ 3.20 GHz |
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Intel Core i7-12700T
12C 20T @ 3.20 GHz |
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AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
6C 12T @ 4.30 GHz |
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Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (SC)
473 entries
473 entries
Cinebench R23 (MC)
448 entries
448 entries
Geekbench 6 (SC)
528 entries
528 entries
Geekbench 6 (MC)
527 entries
527 entries
Geekbench 5 (SC)
1,664 entries
1,664 entries
Geekbench 5 (MC)
1,651 entries
1,651 entries
FP32 SP iGPU
1,872 entries
1,872 entries
Blender 3.1 Benchmark
211 entries
211 entries
PassMark CPU-Mark
1,422 entries
1,422 entries
News and articles for the Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
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In this article we describe how Apple could realize this and why the price should also go up.
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