With Apple’s first Apple silicon Macs due to arrive in the coming days, early benchmark testing on Wednesday reveals the company’s new M1 chip outperforms its top Intel-based machines.
A Geekbench test result from a “MacBookAir10,1,” the designation of Apple’s just-announced MacBook Air with M1 chip, reveals a single-core score of 1687 and a multi-core score of 7433. The 8-core processor was clocked at 3.2 GHz.
By comparison, aggregate scores compiled by the benchmarking site show the M1 blowing past all mobile Macs, all current Mac mini configurations and a healthy portion of iMac specs. That includes the late-2019 MacBook Pro with Intel Core i9-9980HK processor clocked at 2.4 GHz.
According to the unverified results, the MacBook Air testbed was equipped with 8GB of RAM and ran macOS 11.0.1, the forthcoming next-generation operating system due for wide release on Thursday.
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