Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Pro. Comparison made against the highest-performing CPUs for notebooks, commercially available at the time of testing.

“World’s fastest CPU core in low-power silicon”: Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip and 16GB of RAM measuring peak single thread performance of workloads taken from select industry standard benchmarks, commercial applications, and open source applications.With its profound increase in performance and efficiency, M1 delivers the biggest leap ever for the Mac. As a result, M1 delivers up to 3.5x faster CPU performance, up to 6x faster GPU performance, and up to 15x faster machine learning, all while enabling battery life up to 2x longer than previous-generation Macs.

It features the world’s fastest CPU core in low-power silicon, the world’s best CPU performance per watt, the world’s fastest integrated graphics in a personal computer, and breakthrough machine learning performance with the Apple Neural Engine. M1 is the first personal computer chip built using cutting-edge 5-nanometer process technology and is packed with an astounding 16 billion transistors, the most Apple has ever put into a chip. As a system on a chip (SoC), M1 combines numerous powerful technologies into a single chip, and features a unified memory architecture for dramatically improved performance and efficiency. M1 is optimized for Mac systems in which small size and power efficiency are critically important.

Cupertino, California - Apple today announced M1, the most powerful chip it has ever created and the first chip designed specifically for the Mac.

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