Apple MacBook Air 2020 M1 Entry Review: Apple M1 CPU humbles Intel and AMD
Apple M1 | Apple M1 7-Core GPU | 13.30" | 1.3 kg
The Apple M1 GPU is an integrated graphics card offering 7 cores (1 deactivated core in the entry MacBook Air) designed by Apple and integrated in the Apple M1 SoC. According to Apple it is faster and more energy efficient as competing products (like the Tiger Lake Xe GPU). The peak performance of the high end variant with 8 cores is 2.6 teraflops, therefore the 7 core version should offer around 2.3 teraflops. Thanks to the unified memory architecture it should have fast access to the RAM.
The Apple M1 is manufactured in the modern 5nm process at TSMC and should offer an excellent energy efficiency.
Apple M1 Series
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Pipelines | 7 - unified | ||||||||||||||||||
Core Speed | 1278 MHz | ||||||||||||||||||
Memory Type | LPDDR4X-4266 | ||||||||||||||||||
Shared Memory | no | ||||||||||||||||||
technology | 5 nm | ||||||||||||||||||
Date of Announcement | 10.11.2020 |
The following benchmarks stem from our benchmarks of review laptops. The performance depends on the used graphics memory, clock rate, processor, system settings, drivers, and operating systems. So the results don't have to be representative for all laptops with this GPU. For detailed information on the benchmark results, click on the fps number.