Apple announced it, but Apple did it. Although this is only half a surprise as the energy consumption figures were already good for the lastMacBook Air et Pro, the two other models equipped with the M1 chip at the moment, the figures of the Mac mini, which also has this first 100% Apple processor, are enough to put Intel chipsets to “shame”.
John Gruber deDaring Fireballactually took the official power consumption figures for all Mac Minis from 2005 and compared them to the all-new M1 Mac mini. The result is clear.
The numbers show how efficient the 2020 M1 Mac mini is when it comes to power consumption, and how power-hungry the 2018 Mac mini was,while the latter presents much lower performance than the Mac mini of 2020, equipped with the M1 chip.
3 times less energy efficient than the 2018 Mac mini
At idle, John Gruber explains that the M1 Mac mini consumes 7 W of power while the 2018 6-core Mac mini Core i7 consumes 20 W, almost 3 times more. The change is just as obvious when using both machines at full power. The M1 chip actually consumes 39W, while the model equipped with the Intel Core i7 processor consumes 122. Here again, the power ratio is multiplied by 3 between the two devices.
When we look in detail at the comparative table between the different models, we realize that the maximum consumption of the Mac mini M1 is almost equivalent to the idle consumption of the 2005 model.
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