The first MacBooks with M1 chip are delivered: top performance

Apple announced new computers last week. These have the particularity of no longer integrating a third-party processor, but of operating using an in-house Apple M1 chip, falling within the framework of the Apple Silicon project aimed at designing a whole series of SoCs for Apple computers.

The Apple M1 chip is therefore available on Mac Mini, MacBook Air and MacBook Pro 13″. Several of these products have been available to order on the internet since last week and have just arrived today to the first buyers.

This is an opportunity for them to confirm or inform about the good benchmark performances of the Apple M1 chip in the context of tests in real situations.

The 13″ MacBook Pro with M1 chip surprises

On the Chinese social network Weibo, we learned in particular that the MacBook Pro 13″ with Apple chip would be more efficient than the MacBook Pro 16″ with Intel processor and dedicated graphics card, and even than the iMac Pro with Vega 56 and 128 graphics card GB of RAM.

For example, to export an H.264 video, the iMac Pro would have needed 11 minutes and 30 seconds when the MacBook Pro M1 with 8 GB of RAM would have completed the operation in 10 minutes and 20 seconds.

For the export of an H.265 video at 100 frames per second, the iMac Pro would have required 80 seconds when the MacBook Pro M1 would have been almost twice as fast.

These first returns would therefore support the previous conclusions about the Apple M1 chip and its very good performance, both on the CPU side and on the GPU side.

We still have to wait for comparisons carried out in a more structured manner to truly conclude on the capabilities of the Apple M1 chip. But so far, everything suggeststhat Apple would keep its promises.

Editor-in-chief for iPhon.fr. Pierre is like Indiana Jones, looking for the lost iOS trick. Also a long-time Mac user, Apple devices hold no secrets for him. Contact: pierre[a]iphon.fr.