Apple M-series chips gained ~50% Geekbench 6 performance over three years
lemire · x · 2026-09-19
Following his AMD analysis, Daniel Lemire breaks down base Apple Silicon performance across M2 (2022) through M5 (2025), skipping M1 and Pro/Max variants. On Geekbench 6, performance rose about 50% in three years, with steady gains and no big jumps. He walks through per-core improvements, noting IPC rose to 10 instructions per cycle on M4, and promises to cover the just-released M6 at the end of the thread.
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