Why Apple’s M6 Chip Can’t Hold Its Own Against Any NVIDIA GPU

Apple has just announced the arrival of its M6 chip, but it still can't compete with NVIDIA

By Roger Fingas Nov. 8, 2026 2:45 pm EST Pix Lab/Shutterstock Add Engadget on Google: Google Discover

In introducing the latest Mac mini, Apple also debuted its sixth generation of M-series processors for Macs. Apple of course extols the M6 chip as extremely powerful, providing significant boosts to CPU and performance, and there's at least a little merit to those claims. In our review testing, the machine didn't miss a beat in everything from photo editing to 4K video transcoding.