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Geekbench shows M1 Max offers up to 181% faster graphics than previous | Latest Updates | Apple
Apple this week unveiled the new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro, which are powered by Apple Silicon M1 Pro and M1 Max chips. An early benchmark already revealed that the M1 Max CPU delivers twice the performance of the M1 chip, and now a Metal score from Geekbench 5 shows that the M1 Max offers up to 181% faster graphics than the GPUs found in the previous 16-inch MacBook Pro.
Faster graphics for older PCs in Chrome 18
Google Chrome 18 brings two methods of improved graphics support to both newer and older computers. Released today, Google Chrome 18 stable for Windows (download), Mac (download), Linux (download), and Chrome Frame improves both WebGL and Canvas2D. To help along WebGL in Chrome on older Windows and Mac computers, it now gets a boost from a software rasterizer called SwiftShader, licensed from TransGaming. SwiftShader only works when Chrome's baked-in graphics processor acceleration doesn't run, and in the blog post announcing the update, Google said that it sought out this third-party solution so that "more users will have access to basic 3D content on the web." The Canvas2D changes will allow the same older PCs to process game and animation graphics faster. When Google originally debuted the improved Canvas2D in Chrome beta, the company noted that the multitude of older hardware configurations caused significant delays in implementing the improvements. The feature doesn't yet work for Linux. In the offing for Chrome 19, due around six weeks from today, and Chrome 20, due just before June's Google I/O conference, are full implementation of Google's Native Client (NaCl) tech. Already partially available in the Chrome 19 developer's version, NaCl and its API set known as Pepper will allow, the company says, gaming support in the browser that will come close to console-quality graphics. Chrome 18 also updates the Adobe Flash plug-in to its latest version, and makes numerous security and bug fixes. There were no "critical" security fixes, but there were a few "high"-level fixes, out of nine security fixes reported. You can read the Chrome 18 changelog here.
