Joe Rossignol, writing for Mac Rumors:

In this unconfirmed result, the M5 Max with an 18-core CPU achieved a score of 29,233 for multi-core CPU performance, which tops the 27,726 score achieved by the Mac Studio’s M3 Ultra chip with a 32-core CPU. M5 Max is now the fastest Apple silicon chip ever, and it even topped every other consumer PC processor in the Geekbench database.

In terms of multi-core CPU performance, the M5 Max is up to 5% faster than the M3 Ultra, and up to 15% faster than the M4 Max chip with a 16-core CPU.

The M3 Ultra chip was announced exactly one year ago, today. The M5 being 5% faster than a year old CPU that has nearly twice as many cores is freaking wild. The next Mac Studio update is going to be a beast. 💻🔥