The newly announced Mac Pro and Mac Studio can both be kitted out with the most powerful M2 Ultra variant featuring a 24-core CPU and 76-core GPU. Unfortunately, according to the latest benchmark leak, Apple’s tower workstation does not perform any better, despite being significantly larger in size and featuring a superior cooling solution.

New Mac Pro with the M2 Ultra may perform better than the Mac Studio in sustained loads, but Geekbench 6 does not appear to think so

The Mac Studio with the M2 Ultra can be recognized by the unique identifier Mac14,14, while the Mac Pro features the Mac14,8 designation. When checking the Geekbench 6’s single-core and multi-core results of the Mac Studio, there was the possibility that the M2 Ultra would perform better when running in Apple’s workstation simply due to the massive cooler used, which is identical to the one used to cool Intel’s Xeon workstations found in the previous model.

Sadly, the Mac Pro does not push the M2 Ultra’s performance as the machine obtains a single-core and multi-core of 2,794 and 21,453, respectively. This particular version also features 64GB of unified RAM, but we highly doubt that reducing or increasing the memory would have any variable effects on the single-core or multi-core score.

Despite featuring far superior cooling than the Mac Studio, the Apple Silicon Mac Pro’s M2 Ultra does not perform better with Geekbench 6 fired up

These results do prove one thing; the Mac Studio commands better value than the Mac Pro because, with the exact same hardware configuration, the smaller and more compact Mac is actually $3,000 cheaperthan the tower. However, what the Mac Studio gains in better pricing, it loses in expandability, as the Mac Pro features a total of seven PCIe slots.

Unfortunately, it does not support AMD Radeon GPUs or any other graphics card for that matter, meaning that you will be left with the option to add high-speed networking cards or PCIe storage. We should also point out that Apple’s official announcement of the Mac Pro during the WWDC 2023 keynote was only less than three minutes long, hinting that in the future, Apple may favor smaller and more portable machines than those oversized computers.

News Source: Geekbench