An alleged benchmark for the M6 Pro has surfaced on Geekbench, calling into question earlier rumors about a shorter Apple Silicon generation that skips the Pro and Max variants altogether.
The MacBook Pro has yet to move to M6.
Before the introduction of the M6 Mac mini, the rumor mill was dead set on the idea that Apple will be shortening the M6 generation of Apple Silicon in favor of moving to M7 faster. After the launch, a benchmark result may have indicated that there will be more to the M6 generation than previously expected.
A Geekbench 7 score surfacing on Reddit for a "Mac18,6" dated September 18 2026 is claimed to run on an "Apple M6 Pro" with one processor and 18 cores. This is apparently split into two clusters of six cores and 12 cores, which may refer to "Super" performance core and efficiency core counts.
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