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# Mac Mini M6 Geekbench Scores Surface Online

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> A leaked Geekbench listing reveals Apple's M6 chip delivers a 20% multi-threaded performance boost over the previous M5 generation.

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.



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