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Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro Earns 7508 Multi-Core Score in Cinebench Benchmark
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Wow, imagine that millions of grandmas will be buying a Mac with the M1 CPU. Remind me which CPU/GPU AMD makes that has a 10W TDP, I could not find one on the AMD website. From what I have been reading the Zen 3 IPC will idle around 15W. The M1 peaks around 10W from the information I have seen. If the A series is anything to go by, Apple will probably increase performance going forward on the low-end M series while probably keeping the TDP low, around 10W. This is about a balance of performance, efficiency and battery life for the low end M series.
Can’t wait to see what Apple comes up with for the high-end MacBook Pro, iMac and Mac Pro.
The only thing I am puzzled by is your emotional attachment to Geekbench. You really need to distance yourself from it as it is ruining your objectivity.
Battery life is unlimited, you just need a very, very long extension cable
Thats true but for now with the M1 even if the performance was only on par with the previous generation machines you are completely ignoring the huge battery life gains. Apple products have never been cheap, i don't think that will change but the new Macbook Air for example is giving very good bang for your buck imo.
Eh, don't be in a rush to even buy one. It's first gen. Wait for second. (advice, not commands
)I only care about this stuff cause I have $ sitting around that I'd rather buy stock with than lose to inflation.
It is hard to get used to the idea that we are no longer going to buy Macs just for the OS but for superior performance.
To be honest, if the M1 turns out to be this amazing thing for Macs, it's going to be hard not to go out and buy one! I know many are against launch/first-gen products, but I'm a sucker when it comes to these things in that if I like what I see, I'm going to buy it! So far, I haven't been burned *knocks on wood*.Eh, don't be in a rush to even buy one. It's first gen. Wait for second.
My advice, not commands
I use Handbrake so often on a 4790k processor in a desktop... god, I wouldnt know how to handle excitement that a LAPTOP would outperform my desktop by 3X the performance.
It can boost to 25w, so no, it's not low TDP when compared to the 10w for the M1.
The new M1 Macs are now arriving to customers, and one of the first people to get the new M1 13-inch MacBook Pro with 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, and 8GB unified memory has run a much anticipated R23 Cinebench benchmark on the 8GB 13-inch MacBook Pro with 512GB of storage to give us a better idea of performance.
Cinebench is a more intensive multi-thread test than Geekbench 5, testing performance over a longer period of time, and it can provide a clearer overview of how a machine will work in the real world.
The M1 MacBook Pro earned a multi-core Cinebench score of 7508, and a single-core score of 1498, which is similar in performance to some of Intel's 11th-generation chips.
Comparatively, a 2019 16-inch MacBook Pro with 2.3GHz Core i9 chip earned a multi-core score of 8818, according to a MacRumors reader who benchmarked his machine with the new R23 update that came out last week. The 2.6GHz low-end 16-inch MacBook Pro earned a single-core score of 1113 and a multi-core score of 6912 on the same test, and the high-end prior-generation MacBook Air earned a single-core score of 1119 and a multi-core score of 4329.
Other Cinebench R23 scores can be found on the CPU Monkey website for both multi-core and single-core performance.
It's worth noting that the new M1 Macs are lower performance machines that aren't meant for heavy duty rendering tasks. The M1 MacBook Pro replaces the low-end machine, while the MacBook Air has always been more of a consumer machine than a Pro machine.
Apple does have plans for higher-end Pro machines with Apple Silicon chips, but the company has said that it will take around two years to transition the entire Mac lineup to Arm-based chips. The Cinebench scores for the MacBook Air bode well for future Macs that are expected to get even higher performance M-series chips.
Article Link: Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro Earns 7508 Multi-Core Score in Cinebench Benchmark
I’m afraid I see nothing M1 MacBook Pro nor MacBook Air Cinebench scores on the provided cpu-monkey links. Also the whole article ends on MacBook Air score notes but no numbers shown whatsoever except for the MacBook Pro... what are the MacBook Air numbers again?
Also, is cinebench already M1 native?
EDIT: read several pages in, it has been said that Cinebench R23 is indeed native binaries already.
You're right, the https://ark.intel.com/content/www/u...cessor-12m-cache-up-to-4-80-ghz-with-ipu.html does. Doesn't appear mobile by the naming scheme but is.
Just checked and I'm getting that same machine for $1,349 with 512 GB SSD.
The same specs for the M1 MacBook Pro puts it at $1,499.
So the Mac is $150 more expensive, though the display is not quite as good on the Dell, but it is a touch screen (1920x1200). Going to a 4k monitor puts it at $150 more than the Macbook.
In any case, the two machines are in the same price category and neither are "entry-level". Far from it.
No, but that was only because it didn't really fit what I needed/looking for in a laptop at the time and I already had a MacBook Pro. Even the MacBook Air with the M1 isn't appealing - 13-inch MacBook Pro is where it's at for me.
Literally has a photo of the number of cores in the Article. Rather pointless complaining about it when you havent even gone through the whole thing.
Performance is performance. On the battery life, though, 20h is more like 10h by the time battery decay sets in and websites are using whatever inefficient new web technology comes next. So I still welcome the improvement.
(10000 - 7500) / 7500 is 33%.
I don't like % faster/slower anyway. I say things like "133% of" to be clearer.
You're right in that the MacBook Pro doesn’t seem entry-priced compared to the other M1 Macs. But the base Mac mini, which should perform about the same, does have an entry-level price. And both the M1 MBP and Mac mini take the place of entry-level models in their respective lineups, so that’s likely an indication of where the M1 is aiming.
I pointed out earlier that multicore doesn’t match up with that of one of the high-performing Intel chips out there. It doesn’t have to. Single-core performance is amazing, but people who need strong multi-core performance can look forward to that. It’s pretty impressive Apple can even churn out fairly high-performance processors — exceeding the low-TDP i9 in single-core and being competitive with recent i7s in multi-core — while keeping to its low TDP and power envelope. With powerful single cores and the 4:4 big.LITTLE cores, to boot. I’d say it’s fair for others to see it as potential for Apple’s mid- and top-range configs.
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Considering that millions of people do care about battery life, I would say TDP is pretty important.
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