MacBook Air’s Apple Silicon M1 Chip Outperforms High-End 16-inch MacBook Pro

Apple yesterday presented the first MacBook Air, MacBook Pro and Mac mini with M1 Apple Silicon chips, and from today the first reference of the new chip seems to appear on the Geekbench site.

The M1 chip, which belongs to a ‌MacBook Air‌ with 8 GB of RAM, has a single-core score of 1687 and a multi-core score of 7433. According to the benchmark, the M1 has a base frequency of 3.2 GHz.

Compared to existing devices, the M1 chip of the ‌MacBook Air‌ outperforms all iOS devices. For comparison, the iPhone 12 Pro got a single-core score of 1584 and a multi-core score of 3898, while the top-ranked iOS device in Geekbench charts, the A14 iPad Air, got a single-core score. of 1585 and a multicore score of 4647.

Compared to Macs, the single-core performance is better than any other Mac available, and multicore performance surpasses all 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro models, including the high-end 2.4GHz 10th generation Intel Core i9 model. This high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro achieved a single-core score of 1096 and a multi-core score of 6870.

While the M1 chip outperforms the 16-inch MacBook Pro models when it comes to raw CPU benchmarks, the 16-inch MacBook Pro likely offers better performance in other areas such as the GPU, as these models have discrete GPUs. high power.

It should be noted that there will likely be performance differences between the MacBook Pro and the ‌MacBook Air‌ even though they use the same M1 chip, as the ‌MacBook Air‌ has a fanless design and the MacBook Pro has a new cooling system designed by Apple. There’s also a benchmark for the Mac mini, however, and it has roughly the same scores.

The ‌Mac mini‌ with M1 chip that was evaluated achieved a single-core score of 1682 and a multi-core score of 7067.