While the new M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros won’t be available until March 11, the first M5 Max benchmark has already appeared on Geekbench. Here are the results. New records, if the numbers hold up As we mentioned a few days ago when an early benchmark purporting to measure the performance of the yet-to-be-released M4 iPad Air surfaced, Geekbench results for unreleased products should always be taken with a grain of salt. That said, the first test reported for an 18-core M5 Max chip popped up a few hours ago on Geekbench, showing a single-core CPU score of 4,268, and a multi-core CPU score of 29,233. According to the test results, the benchmark ran on a Mac17,7 model, which would correspond to the upcoming 16-inch MacBook Pro. If confirmed, those numbers would represent roughly a 9% increase in single-core performance and a 13.7% increase in multi-core performance compared with the 16-core M4 Max in the 2024 16-inch MacBook Pro, which averages 3,915 in single-core and 25,702 in multi-core on Geekbench.…