Review » Apple MacBook Air 2020 Review: Should you get the more powerful version of the M1 processor?Īpple MacBook Pro 13 Late 2020 M1 Entry (8 / 256 GB): Apple M1 8-Core GPU, 13.30', 1.4 kg SeriesĪpple MacBook Air Late 2020 (M1, 8 Core GPU, 8 GB RAM): Apple M1 8-Core GPU, 13.30', 1.3 kg The Apple M1 includes 16 billion transistors (up from the 10 billion of the A12Z Bionic and therefore double the amount of a Tiger Lake-U chip like the i7-1185G7) and is manufactured in 5nm at TSMC. Apple claims that it is faster than any other iGPU at the time of announcement.įurthermore, the SoC integrates a fast 16 core neural engine with a peak performance of 11 TOPS (for AI hardware acceleration), a secure enclave (e.g., for encryption), a unified memory architecture, Thunderbolt / USB 4 controller, an ISP, and media de- and encoders.

The integrated graphics card in the M1 offers 8 cores (7 cores in the entry MacBook Air) and a peak performance of 2.6 teraflops. Those should offer a better-sustained performance according to Apple. The M1 is available in two TDP variants, a passive cooled 10 Watt variant for the MacBook Air and an active cooled faster variant for the MacBook Pro 13 and Mac Mini. The efficiency cores (E cluster) clock with 600 - 2064 MHz, the performance cores (P cluster) with 600 - 3204 MHz. The four efficiency cores are a lot smaller and offer only 128 KB instruction cache, 64 KB data cache, and 4 MB shared cache. According to Apple the performance of these cores should be better than anything on the market (in late 2020). The big cores offer 192 KB instruction cache, 128 KB data cache, and 12 MB shared L2 cache. It offers 8 cores divided in four performance cores and four power-efficiency cores.

The Apple M1 is a System on a Chip (SoC) from Apple that is found in the late 2020 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro 13, and Mac Mini.

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