Apple M1 Pro tested on Geekbench, graphics performance close to GTX 1650.
Several new MB Pros with M1 Pro processors have been tested on Geekbench. In terms of processor performance, the new Apple processor is ahead of the ten-core Intel Core i9. Graphic performance is comparable to the initial GeForce GTX.
The latest 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros are sold with several M1 Pro and M1 Max processor configurations, both full and trimmed:
MacBook Pro 14 MacBook Pro 16 M1 Pro 8 processor cores/14 graphics cores ✓ x 10 processor cores/14 graphics cores ✓ x 10 processor cores/16 graphics cores ✓ ✓ M1 Max 10 processor cores/24 graphics cores ✓ ✓ 10 processor cores/ 32 graphics cores ✓ ✓
Recent results from the Geekbench database allow us to evaluate the performance of a ten-core M1 Pro with 16 clusters of unified shaders (16 graphics cores in Apple’s terminology). Let’s just say the M1 Pro is much faster than the M1, which isn’t surprising when you consider how much it’s built into. A significant increase in processing power can give software developers more confidence in the bright future of macOS as a gaming platform.
To the details. Let’s start with processor speed. The single-threaded Geekbench 5 score of the M1 Pro can reach 1750 points, the multi-threaded one goes a little over 12k points. Both numbers look a few tens of percent more rosy than the results of the ten-core Intel Core i9-10910 from the still-selling 27-inch iMac.
The graphics performance of the M1 Pro was tested in both OpenCL (36.5k points) and Metal (over 41k points). Those numbers put the Apple-designed GPU on par with the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 (laptop) and GTX 1650 Max-Q, which score around 38K and 36K points, respectively. The nearest Nvidia Ampere GPU, the GeForce RTX 3050 in the laptop edition, scores around 46k points in the OpenCL test.
If the M1 Max, with its 32-core onboard GPU configuration, can deliver twice the speed of the M1 Pro with 16 GPUs, then the multiplication yields 70.80k points in the respective Geekbench benchmarks. That is, https://jiji.co.ke/uasin-gishu/274-tractors indeed, close to individual variants of the RTX 3080 (for a laptop) with a particularly severe limitation on the consumed watts. True or not, we hope to get new MacBook Pros for testing within the next ten days to find out everything.