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

[tarasis]

So the 16 Gb benchmark will probably be better

BTW did you ask if he can already access/run iOS/iPadOS apps?

Wondering if this needs to be turned on yet by Apple, or is working out the box already.

 

[Systra72]

He just told me this, after asking:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1328452879154233344

Bench that SSD please, supposed to be 2x faster

 

[Henk van Ess]

Will ask

 

[jeanlain]

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

His geekbench score is not abnormally low.

 

[AltecX]

For comparison I have a Surface Pro 7 i7 16GB RAM. The my Multi-Core R23 is: 3835, single core is: 1101

This is a really impressive for the M1 and also have so much better battery. 2x the multi and ~30% more single than a 10th gen Core i7

 

[Henk van Ess]

The guy is running with 8 GB RAM @AltecX - wow, great benchmark

 

[Henk van Ess]

Will ask

can already access/run iOS/iPadOS apps

 

[IvanKaramazov]

I don't believe RAM quantity should affect the score much. @never_released is claiming that 11.0.1 adds a 100MHz overclock to the chips, though I don't know that that would affect scores all that much.

 

[StellarVixen]

Single core, from same person:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1328453127209504771

Edit: Only 11th gen Intel i7 is above it.

 

[Henk van Ess]

Again, impressive...

 

[jeanlain]

But not as impressive as geekbench. In this test, the M1 is clearly not the fastest CPU core. It's beated by another laptop chip, and Zen 3 chips score 250 points higher. All at much higher power levels of course.

 

[thingstoponder]

BTW did you ask if he can already access/run iOS/iPadOS apps?

Wondering if this needs to be turned on yet by Apple, or is working out the box already.

Yes you can. You can already see them in the App Store.

 

[Henk van Ess]

In this test, the M1 is clearly not the fastest CPU core.

Which would be a total surprise if it was : an entry level machine that is faster?

 

[IvanKaramazov]

I'd love to know the per-core and package power draw for each of those tests. That score at 15w versus that score at 25w makes a large difference in terms of how it compares with the AMD and Intel chips.

 

[Henk van Ess]

No info on that yet @IvanKaramazov

 

[AltecX]

But not as impressive as geekbench. In this test, the M1 is clearly not the fastest CPU core. It's beated by another laptop chip, and Zen 3 chips score 250 points higher. All at much higher power levels of course.

They never specified in what test it was the fastest in.

 

[StellarVixen]

Is there a reason why ARM chips can't reach higher clock speeds?

 

[Henk van Ess]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1328454714833309696

 

[MacD]

Hey guys - remember, it's not in the clock speed, but how you use it.

 

[jeanlain]

They never specified in what test it was the fastest in.

I think Apple refers to a variety of benchmarks and applications. And geekbench shows that the M1 core is the clear winner, much faster than Tiger Lake in single core. Not so in cinebench.

As for that tweet on battery life... Of course it's less than what Apple said. Their estimates do not covered indexing + benchmarking, but web browsing and video playback.

 

[StellarVixen]

Hey guys - remember, it's not in the clock speed, but how you use it.

Yes, but wouldn't M1 benefit from even higher clock speeds? Or is there some physical limitation that makes that impossible?

 

[Lunfai]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1328454714833309696

I’m not defending Apple here but surely if he’s runnning benchmarks and downloading apps etc the battery life goes out the window ?

 

[Fl0r!an]

For reference, here's a quite comprehensive list of Cinebench R23 results: https://www.computerbase.de/2020-11/cinebench-r23-community-benchmarks/

M1 multicore seems to be in line with Ryzen 15W results, maybe 10-15% faster. Single core is more impressive with ~25% lead.

Seems plausible regarding the manufacturing processes and more realistic for general CPU performance than Apple's performance claims.

 

[MacD]

Yes, but wouldn't M1 benefit from even higher clock speeds? Or is there some physical limitation that makes that impossible?

More heat, more power needs, more $$$.

 

[Fl0r!an]

Yes, but wouldn't M1 benefit from even higher clock speeds? Or is there some physical limitation that makes that impossible?

Apple's CPU architecture is very wide, which generally limits clock speeds. No one but Apple knows the exact limit, but it surely won't clock as high as modern AMD or Intel CPUs.

Doesn't say anything about performance obviously.