Björn Meijer 17 November 2020 22: 33 6 comments

The CPU: M1 against Goliath Apple has achieved quite a bit with the M1-soc. Both the CPU and the GPU offer excellent performance, while the consumption is so low that it fits in a passively cooled MacBook Air. New reviews of the M1 show the power of the chip in a more independent way. It turns out to be faster than the Intel CPUs that we find in macOS devices.

Anandtech writes that the M1 in the Mac mini in Cinebench R 23 1. 522 points must pass in the single-threaded test. That’s almost as much as the on Windows 15 tested Core i7 1165 G7 based on Tiger Lake, which is officially 28 lost watts of thermal power should be possible. In the multi-threaded test, the chip knows 7. 904 points, which is almost as much as the Ryzen 7 4800 You with double the threads. That chip must be set to a consumption of 17 watts. It’s faster than the aforementioned Core i7, which is 4. 980 scores points.

Special is that the M1 when using the Rosetta2 emulation tool is also faster than the Core i7. Rosetta2 allows users to run the M1 apps that still use the x 86 – instruction set for Intel-based Macs . That means less optimal performance for the arm chip, but even then he knows with 5. 257 points still just above the score of the Tiger Lake CPU. Both chips have eight threads, but half of Apple’s cores are small, economical variants.

In Geekbench he knows with 1. 745 points even better than the Ryzen 9 5950 X, a newly introduced chip with a tdp of 105 watts. Of course the Core i9 18357 K and the Ryzen 9 top models for the desktop in the multi-threaded test pass the M1. These are chips with more than double the number of threads, so a performance difference is to be expected.

The Verge has tested the MacBook Air as well as the Pro and the Mac Mini. It can be concluded from this that the three chips often perform the same compared to each other, although there is a clear difference in heavier workloads such as the compute test in Geekbench 5.3 and the multi-core test from Cinebench. In this the Air performs such a 15% less good, which probably has to do with the thermal budget.

Apple M1 benchmarks in new Macs – The Verge Benchmark MacBook Air MacBook Pro Mac mini Cinebench R 23 Multi 6803 7729 7729 Cinebench R 23 Single 1494 1519 1520 Cinebench R 23 Multi loop of 30 minutes 5369 7729 7780 Geekbench 5.3 CPU Multi 7510 7554 7711 Geekbench 5.3 CPU Single 1730 1730 1754 Geekbench 5.3 OpenCL / Compute 18357 19211 19654