A Geekbench 6.3 listing for a Mac18,5, identified as the Mac mini M6, has surfaced following Apple's August 2026 chip launch. The device, running macOS 27.0 with 32 GB of memory, recorded a single-core score of 4,610 and a multi-core score of 20,676 points.
The M6 chip utilizes a 2+4+6-core cluster, featuring two super cores, four performance cores, and six efficiency cores. This configuration surpasses the 10-core M5, which holds median scores of 4,195 in single-core and 17,072 in multi-core performance tests.
Apple claims the M6 offers 1.2 times faster multi-threaded performance than the M5. While the A20 Pro chip leads in single-core tasks with a score of 4,725, reports suggest the M6 super core employs a 10-wide decode design to drive these significant gains.