Apple Silicon M1: benchmarks and review for Mac Mini, MacBook Air and MBP 13 M1 and comparison with other brands

[dmccloud]

My guess is that the review embargo lifts at 8AM PST tomorrow, although it may be 12PM to allow for more shipments to actually arrive at their destinations. I would assume that we will see a run on reviews and even podcasts over the next two days once the floodgates have been opened and the new Macs are in people's homes.

 

[Henk van Ess]

Well some people have a M1 machine already, check

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1328427807987302400

(at least, CLAIM)

 

[Henk van Ess]

I asked the guy for benchmarks

 

[mikeboss]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1328445618038083585

 

[mikeboss]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1328446719441334274

 

[Henk van Ess]

That’s what we expected, but now we have our first documented user with these benchmarks. Whoehaa

 

[mavere]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1328446719441334274

The partly-covered completed multi core Cinebench results window is one heck of a tease. Maybe he is running the single core portion.

 

[Henk van Ess]

He just gave me the Cinebench and will tweet it in a bit

 

[macGa]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1328448391706099712

 

[Henk van Ess]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1328448391706099712

 

[OriginalClone]

The partly-covered completed multi core Cinebench results window is one heck of a tease. Maybe he is running the single core portion.

There’s another pic that shows results.

 

[Henk van Ess]

That’s ... satisfying!

 

[themichiel]

How impressive is this cinebench score?

 

[scatopie]

For reference, here is a post I made asking for MBP 16" Cinebench 23 results:

Does anyone have benchmarks on MBP 16" for Cinebench R23 that was just released?

I'm curious to see what the numbers are so I can compare scores between Macbooks in the future, since I just ordered a M1 MBP 13" set to arrive in 2 weeks. My Mac Mini (late 2018) scored a 1062 for Single Core, and 5596 Multi Core.

forums.macrumors.com

 

[Kung gu]

He just gave me the Cinebench and will tweet it in a bit View attachment 1669909

That’s an amazing multi score

 

[dugbug]

wonder how cinebench handles cores of different speeds

 

[handymanuk]

Who needs Youtube....?

 

[jeanlain]

wonder how cinebench handles cores of different speeds

I suppose it's up to the OS (scheduler). Each thread moves from core to core every fraction of a second.

 

[Macdude2010]

I'd be interested in how the Air performs under load, if it doesn't throttle like the old Air's do I might be tempted to step down to one.

 

[Henk van Ess]

He just told me this, after asking:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1328452879154233344

 

[tarasis]

Very curious to see real world Mac mini benchmarks. But that Air is outstanding.

 

[Henk van Ess]

So the 16 Gb benchmark will probably be better

 

[dugbug]

I suppose it's up to the OS (scheduler). Each thread moves from core to core every fraction of a second.

well yeah, but if it farms out chunks of equal sized work and waits for all cores to come back, slow ones could affect the outcome (like SIMD). I don't know how the benchmark works, so this is just a curiosity on my part.

 

[scatopie]

So the 16 Gb benchmark will probably be better

Not so sure about that. If you search on Geekbench for "Apple m1" you can see a slew of scores. Most are 8gb, and there were about two that were 16gb I saw, and there was no noticeable difference in score. (One of them actually scored lower) I'd love to be proven wrong though!

apple m1 - Geekbench 5 CPU Search - Geekbench

browser.geekbench.com

 

[thingstoponder]

I don’t know what to make of scores fresh out of the box. The machine is still doing a lot of things in the background