As Apple’s rumored MacBook Professional 2023 14-inch and 16-inch fashions loom nearer, one other leak reveals two unreleased Mac fashions on Steam’s database — and the codenames resemble alleged MacBook Professional Geekbench scores that time to the brand new fashions.
Noticed in Steam’s November 2022 survey (opens in new tab) (by way of MacRumors (opens in new tab)), the mysterious Mac fashions are proven alongside different identified Apple merchandise such because the MacBook Air M2, 13-inch MacBook Professional M2, and extra. The 2 unknown fashions, “Mac14,6” and “Mac15,4,” are related names used within the Geekbench 5 benchmarks that popped up earlier this month. Nevertheless, solely “Mac14,6” was proven in these alleged outcomes.
The Steam survey compiles a listing of PCs getting used to entry Steam, together with gathering particulars on customers’ machines such because the mannequin, CPU, and extra. The survey reveals that each the Mac14,6 and Mac15,4 have had 0% utilization. Though, this might imply Apple is starting to check these unreleased Mac fashions on Steam, seeing as Apple ought to be beginning to give a rattling about gaming.
The subsequent set of Mac fashions is predicted to be the MacBook Professional 2023 14-inch and 16-inch fashions, which the Steam itemizing might be alluding to. These fashions are tipped to boast M2 Professional and M2 Max chips, with the latter apparently exhibiting up in two separate benchmark assessments.
M2 Max energy
In keeping with the newest benchmark assessments, noticed by notable tipster ShripmApplePro (opens in new tab) on Twitter, the rumored M2 Max hit a 2,027 single-core rating and a 14,888 multi-core rating. That is additionally below mannequin ID “Mac14,6” and comes with a whopping 96GB of RAM. It runs macOS Ventura 13.2 and likewise reveals the next base frequency of three.68GHz.
In comparison with the M1 Max in Apple’s 16-inch MacBook Professional mannequin, the M2 Max clearly provides a good bump in efficiency. In keeping with Geekbench, the M1 Max scores round 1,790 in single-score and 12,800 in multi-score.
As at all times, these leaks ought to be taken with a grain of salt, seeing as now we have but to listen to something official concerning the upcoming MacBook Professional 2023 fashions. Whereas we had been anticipating them to reach in 2022, Apple apparently pushed this again to subsequent yr. Just lately, nonetheless, notable leaker LeaksApplePro (opens in new tab) on Twitter said the brand new MacBook Professional fashions with M2 Professional and M2 Max might be “well worth the wait,” and are stated to supply higher speeds and battery life, together with much less warmth.
