MacBook M6 ULTRA 4th quarter 2026, buy the MacBook M5 MAX now before it gets more expensive. !!!!!!!

[Hai]

It's better than AMD, Intel, and Snapdragon notebooks.
The most expensive AMD and Intel notebooks cost around €16,000.
The MacBook 16-inch M5 MAX maxed out costs only around €7,000.
You get virtually twice the performance and pay half the price.

Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (X2E-96-100) vs Apple M5 Max (40-core GPU)
https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/q ... ?uc=gaming

Intel Core Ultra X9 388H vs Apple M5 Max (40-core GPU)
https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/i ... ?uc=gaming

Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX vs Apple M5 Max (40-core GPU)
https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/i ... ?uc=gaming

Apple M5 Max (40-core GPU) vs AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395
https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/a ... ?uc=gaming

Apple M5 Max (40-core GPU) vs AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D
https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/a ... ?uc=gaming

Apple M5 Max (40-core GPU) vs AMD Ryzen 9 Pro 9945
https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/a ... ?uc=gaming

Apple M5 Max (40-core GPU) vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D
https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu-compare/a ... ?uc=gaming

Apple M5 Max (18-CPU 40-GPU) vs Apple M5 Max (18-CPU 32-GPU)
https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_c ... cpu_32_gpu


MacBook M6 ULTRA
ULTRA chip
2nm
256 GB RAM
OLED
18-21 inch
Touchscreen
= or what others already offer.

[smatovic]

Come on Hai, get real, give us some real world computer chess benchmarks, we are all gown ups, we can handle the truth ;-P

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Srdja

[towforce]

Come on Hai, get real, give us some real world computer chess benchmarks, we are all gown ups, we can handle the truth ;-P

There aren't always chess benchmarks available, but there are always GeekBench numbers available.

Whenever I've compare GeekBench numbers to chess benchmark numbers (admittedly I've only done this twice, and the last time was several years ago), I've always found the correlation to be strong.

[Werewolf]

Geekbench is the worst benchmarking suite

[towforce]

Geekbench is the worst benchmarking suite

1. Geekbench numbers are available for every device I've ever searched

2. On both occasions on which I've tested, the correlation with chess benchmark numbers has been strong

It's a more than good enough proxy where chess benchmarks are not available.

[Werewolf]

I don’t think they are strong. The M5 Max is beating the 9995WX in multithreading. It’s a total joke, the suite is broken.
Meanwhile, in real life, the 9995WX is what? 4x faster for chess?

[Ras]

It's better than AMD, Intel, and Snapdragon notebooks.

Moderation: How is this even on-topic for computer chess? Where are any chess related benchmarks? Please supply them to get this on-topic. And also update your profile. "Hai" does not cut it.

[towforce]

It's better than AMD, Intel, and Snapdragon notebooks.

Moderation: How is this even on-topic for computer chess? Where are any chess related benchmarks? Please supply them to get this on-topic. And also update your profile. "Hai" does not cut it.

The profile is too short, and I agree to abide by moderators' decisions, but may I request a VAR review on relevance for computer chess?

Most computer chess followers are interested in CPUs, and Apple does have a track record in producing good CPUs for portable devices. Also, when I say that I have found strong correlations between chess benchmarks and GeekBench scores in the past, I'm not making that up: I have posted actual evidence about this in the past - and nobody has ever pointed out any mistakes in this simple statistical work: I'd like for people to understand that GeekBench scores are a perfectly good alternative to chess benchmarks (and are available online for every device I've ever looked up) - but I understand that most CCC members will be more comfortable with the latter. These threads tend to be short lived, but yield interesting and useful information while they are here.

The title of this thread is obviously emotive, but I think that all CCC readers will immediately recognise that he's a fanboy.

[smatovic]

Apple's 18-core M5 Max beats 96-core Ryzen Threadripper Pro 9995WX in Geekbench due to weak benchmark scaling — GPU performance is much less impressive [Updated]
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-compone ... impressive

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Srdja

[Sopel]

Moderation: How is this even on-topic for computer chess?

Hilarious placement. Thank you.