Apple M1
The Apple M1 is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the late 2020 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13, and Mac Mini. It offers 8 cores divided in four performance cores and four power-efficiency cores. The big cores offer 192 KB instruction cache, 128 KB data cache, and 12 MB shared L2 cache. According to Apple the performance of these cores should be better than anything on the market (in late 2020). The four efficiency cores are a lot smaller and offer only 128 KB instruction cache, 64 KB data cache, and 4 MB shared cache. The efficiency cores (E cluster) clock with 600 - 2064 MHz, the performance cores (P cluster) with 600 - 3204 MHz.
The M1 is available in two TDP variants, a passive cooled 10 Watt variant for the MacBook Air and an active cooled faster variant for the MacBook Pro 13 and Mac Mini. Those should offer a better-sustained performance according to Apple.
The integrated graphics card in the M1 offers 8 cores (7 cores in the entry MacBook Air) and a peak performance of 2.6 teraflops. Apple claims that it is faster than any other iGPU at the time of announcement.
Furthermore, the SoC integrates a fast 16 core neural engine with a peak performance of 11 TOPS (for AI hardware acceleration), a secure enclave (e.g., for encryption), a unified memory architecture, Thunderbolt / USB 4 controller, an ISP, and media de- and encoders.
The Apple M1 includes 16 billion transistors (up from the 10 billion of the A12Z Bionic and therefore double the amount of a Tiger Lake-U chip like the i7-1185G7 ) and is manufactured in 5nm at TSMC.
Series Apple Apple M-Series Clock Rate 2064 - 3200 MHz Level 1 Cache 2 MB Level 2 Cache 16 MB Number of Cores / Threads 8 / 8 Transistor Count 16000 Million Manufacturing Technology 5 nm Features ARMv8 Instruction Set GPU Apple M1 8-Core GPU 64 Bit 64 Bit support Architecture ARM Announcement Date 11/10/2020
Benchmarks Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 CPU (Multi Core)
min: 7409 avg: 7691 median: 7762.5 (29%) max: 7830 Points
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Intel Core i7-10700 11%
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Cinebench R23 - Cinebench R23 CPU (Single Core)
min: 1496 avg: 1511 median: 1514.5 (89%) max: 1520 Points
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Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Single Core)
min: 401 avg: 404 median: 403.5 (62%) max: 406 Points
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Cinebench R20 - Cinebench R20 CPU (Multi Core)
min: 1863 avg: 1986 median: 1986 (19%) max: 2109 Points
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Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64 Bit
min: 1020 avg: 1045 median: 1045 (23%) max: 1070 Points
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Cinebench R15 - Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64 Bit
208 Points (76%)
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7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Multli Thread 4 runs
34614 MIPS (27%)
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7-Zip 18.03 - 7-Zip 18.03 Single Thread 4 runs
5441 MIPS (78%)
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Blender 2.79 - Blender 2.79 BMW27 CPU *
382 Seconds (3%)
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R Benchmark 2.5 - R Benchmark 2.5 *
0.7 sec (16%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot Extreme (ES 3.1) Unlimited Physics
2711 Points (34%)
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3DMark - 3DMark Sling Shot (ES 3.0) Unlimited Physics
min: 1956 avg: 3137 median: 3136.5 (46%) max: 4317 Points
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Geekbench 5.3 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Single-Core
min: 1710 avg: 1728 median: 1728.5 (92%) max: 1745 points
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Geekbench 5.3 - Geekbench 5.1 - 5.4 64 Bit Multi-Core
min: 7260 avg: 7514 median: 7574 (45%) max: 7710 points
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Mozilla Kraken 1.1 - Kraken 1.1 Total Score *
min: 476.9 avg: 494 median: 492 (1%) max: 515.9 ms
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Sunspider - Sunspider 1.0 Total Score *
86.1 ms (1%)
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Octane V2 - Octane V2 Total Score
min: 62113 avg: 62519 median: 62508 (90%) max: 62946 Points
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WebXPRT 3 - WebXPRT 3 Score
min: 216 avg: 250 median: 251 (85%) max: 281 Points
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Intel Core i7-10700 -2%
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min: 104389 avg: 105297 median: 105297 (91%) max: 106205 Points
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AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 MEM
min: 110874 avg: 111266 median: 111266 (90%) max: 111658 Points
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AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 GPU
min: 533978 avg: 539206 median: 539206 (99%) max: 544434 Points
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AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 CPU
min: 267169 avg: 271808 median: 271808 (98%) max: 276446 Points
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AnTuTu v8 - AnTuTu v8 Total Score
min: 1017190 avg: 1027580 median: 1027580 (99%) max: 1037960 Points
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Power Consumption - Cinebench R15 Multi Power Consumption - external Monitor *
27.2 Watt (7%)
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Reviews for the Apple Apple M-Series M1 processor
Apple iPad Pro 11 2021 (Apple M1 8-Core GPU, 11.00")Apple iPad Pro 11 (2021) tablet review - The Apple tablet sparks the M1-Turbo - ReviewApple iPad Pro 11 2021 - External ReviewApple iPad Pro 11 (2021): Closer to a laptop than ever before -
Apple iPad Pro 12.9 2021 A2378 (Apple M1 8-Core GPU, 12.90")Apple iPad Pro 12.9 2021 tablet review - A Mini LED trump card? - ReviewApple iPad Pro 12.9 2021 - External ReviewApple iPad Pro 12.9 (2021): A behemoth that is almost the perfect tablet -
Apple MacBook Air 2020 M1 Entry (Apple M1 7-Core GPU, 13.30")Apple MacBook Air 2020 M1 Entry Review: Apple M1 CPU humbles Intel and AMD - ReviewApple MacBook Air 2020 M1 Entry - External ReviewApple MacBook Air M1 with 50 % longer battery runtime, but the weak power adapter limits the charging performance - Be careful when you buy a MacBook Air: Avoid the Intel SKUs of the 2020 Air -
Apple MacBook Air Late 2020 (M1, 8 Core GPU, 8 GB RAM) (Apple M1 8-Core GPU, 13.30")Apple MacBook Air 2020 Review: Should you get the more powerful version of the M1 processor? - ReviewApple MacBook Air Late 2020 (M1, 8 Core GPU, 8 GB RAM) - External ReviewApple MacBook Air 2020 M1 Benchmarks: Should you get 7 or 8 GPU cores? -
Apple MacBook Pro 13 Late 2020 M1 Entry (8 / 256 GB) (Apple M1 8-Core GPU, 13.30")Apple MacBook Pro 13 2020 Laptop Review: The entry-level Pro also gets the M1 performance boost - ReviewApple MacBook Pro 13 Late 2020 M1 Entry (8 / 256 GB) - External ReviewApple MacBook Pro 13 M1 with more than 20 hours battery runtime, but no performance advantage over the MacBook Air - The new Apple MacBook Pro 13 M1 is very good, but where are the Pro features compared to the MacBook Air? -
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