That M4 Max is in a laptop. The Mac Studio version is a couple percent faster still:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/16839304?baseli...

The M3 Ultra sacrifices a bunch of single-thread performance for not that much of a multithreaded gain:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/16839654?baseli...

Alright, thanks. Seems like a tradeoff issue.