The first benchmarks for the M6 Mac mini have emerged. While Moore's Law is in fact dead, the Mac mini is still getting a massive and noticeable boost in processing performance.

Ahead of the release of Apple's product launches to consumers, benchmarks for the models frequently surface, hinting at what's on the way. That has seemingly happened for the M6 Mac mini, which Apple introduced at the end of August.

The Geekbench 7 listing for a "Mac18,5" posted on September 15 mentions it is a Mac with an M6 chip, complete with 12 cores. The listing adds that it has a base frequency of 4.78GHz, up from the 4.4Ghz M4 Mac mini and the 3.2GHz M1 Mac mini.

On the single-core test, the M6 Mac mini is shown to have achieved a score of 4,071. By comparison to the previous base Mac mini model, the M4, that works out to be a 24% improvement. It's also 69% better than the M2 Mac mini. The 89% improvement almost doubles the score of the M1 Mac mini.

The change is more startling on the multi-core side of things. At 22,783, the M6 Mac mini is 48% better at multi-core tasks than the M4 Mac mini. Compared against the M2 Mac mini, the M6 is 132% better. That extends to 165% when the M1 Mac mini is taken into consideration.