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Apple M1

Apple M1
  • Cores: 8
  • TDP: 14 W
  • Transistor size: 5 nm
Apple M1 - laptop processor produced by Apple for socket Apple M-Socket that has 8 cores and 8 threads. The base clock frequency of the CPU is 3200 MHz. Please note that this chip has integrated graphics Apple M1 GPU.

Review

Single-Core Performance
69
Multi-Core Performance
24
Power Efficiency
73
Integrated Graphics
64
NanoReview Final Score
53
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Test in Benchmarks

Performance test of Apple M1 in benchmarks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
110
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
525
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
2410
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
8547
File compression 941 MB/sec
Clang compilation 68.2 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 192.4 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 211.9 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 250.8 pages/sec
Background blur 34.1 images/sec
Photo processing 60.9 images/sec
Ray tracing 9.74 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1] – 760 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
3675
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
14130
Integer math 33.2 GOps/sec
Floating point math 35.5 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 141M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 21M Strings/sec
Data encryption 8.6 GBytes/sec
Data compression 168.2 MBytes/sec
Physics 1359 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 6.9B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3] – 10364 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
95.27

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 37.5 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 610.5 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 1009.3 PPW
Blender / Watt 6.81 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-06 (gaR)GeekBench2396 / 8763
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-11 (Ario)GeekBench2395 / 8820
πŸ“˜ 2025-04-11 (Ario)Cinebench 2024110 / 465
πŸ“˜ 2025-01-17 (Qianhe)Cinebench 2024110 / 525
πŸ“˜ 2024-09-01 (hug)Cinebench 202466 / 279
πŸ“˜ 2023-09-20 (bfx)Cinebench 2024108 / 445
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Specifications

Apple M1 technical specifications

General

Vendor Apple
Released November 20, 2020
Type Laptop
Instruction Set ARMv8
Codename Apple M1
Integrated GPU Apple M1 GPU
Successor - Apple M5 (10-Core)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4
P-Threads 4
Base Frequency (P) 3.2 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 4
E-Threads 4
Base Frequency (E) 2.1 GHz
Total
Total Cores 8
Total Threads 8
L1 Cache 192K (per core)
L2 Cache 12MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No

Package

Transistors 16 billions
Fabrication Process 5 nm
TDP (PL1) 14 W
Socket Apple M-Socket

iGPU

Integrated Graphics Apple M1 GPU
GPU Base Clock 450 MHz
GPU Boost Clock 1278 MHz
Shading Units 1024
TMUs 64
ROPs 32
Execution Units 128
TGP 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
2.6 TFLOPS
See also: Apple M1 GPU (8-core) – integrated graphics of this CPU

Memory Support

Memory Types - LPDDR4X-4266
Max. Memory Size 16 GB
Memory Channels 8
Max. Memory Bandwidth 68.25 GB/s
ECC Support No

Misc

PCI Express Version 4.0

Competitors

1. Apple M1 vs Apple M4 (10-Core) (10)
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Sim JS November 8, 2021 at 04:04 AM
The Apple M1 is the best "Single Core" performance in CPU, don't talk about frequency ,the Apple M1(Firestorm) just use 3.2GHz and 15 watts of power to beat Intel i9-12900K and Ryzen 9 5950X in Single Core. According to Geekerwan: 3.2 GHz of M1 =3.85GHz Intel 12th Alder Lake =4.5GHz AMD Zen 3 =4.7GHz Intel 11th Tiger Lake =5.6GHz Intel 10th Skylake That means the best x86 Single Core performance Intel 12th Gen Alder Lake cant beat IPC of Apple M1. And now M2 is soon ...this will be so interesting.
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Autumn December 13, 2023 at 10:12 AM
"What, I can't play video games on it or do my engineering homework?"
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Syed Shahzaib June 7, 2021 at 05:15 PM
They have given M1 in new ipad pro 12.9 2021. I want review for that also to compare them with Snapdragon. Thank you
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Me. September 6, 2021 at 02:05 PM
M1 is already beat the Sd888. But M1 Doesn't optimized, Sd888 are fast yet.
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Berg March 2, 2025 at 07:00 PM
Apparently apple doesn't optimize their M series on ipads, thus they have worse performance than supposed to be stronger than the competitors
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