The first unverified Geekbench 7 benchmark for Apple's new M6 chip surfaced today, revealing performance gains ahead of the new Mac Mini launch. The M6 chip achieved a single-core score of 4,071 and a multi-core score of 22,783. Compared to the M5 chip's averages of 3,641 and 17,948 respectively, the M6 shows approximately 12% faster single-core performance and up to 27% faster multi-core performance.

Apple claims the M6 has the world's fastest single-threaded CPU performance, with the 4,071 score topping the M5 Max (3,731) and Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme (3,396) in the database. Positioning data places the M6 below the M5 Ultra and M5 Max in multi-core rankings, but ahead of previous generations like the M4 Max and M2 Ultra. The new Mac Mini with M6 and M5 Pro chips launches on Tuesday, September 22.

GPU results and M5 Ultra benchmarks are pending in the Geekbench database. Related Roundup: Mac mini. Tags: Benchmarks, Geekbench.

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