Apple’s M5 Ultra Benchmarks Leak — and They’re Jaw-Dropping

A benchmark submission appearing briefly in the Geekbench browser before deletion showed an unannounced Apple chip scoring 4,812 on single-core and 28,940 on multi-core. Cross-referencing the chip identifier against known Apple silicon nomenclature strongly suggests this is the M5 Ultra.

If the numbers are real, this is a generational leap. The M3 Ultra — currently Apple’s fastest publicly available chip — scores around 3,100 single-core and 21,000 multi-core. That’s a 55% single-core improvement and a 37% multi-core improvement in roughly two years.

For anyone doing ML inference, video production, or 3D rendering locally, these numbers matter enormously. The more interesting story is what this does to GPU-side machine learning accelerator performance, which enterprise buyers are watching closely.

No official announcement. No event scheduled. Apple did not respond to a request for comment. They never do until they’re ready.