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. The integrated graphics card of the SoC will most likely stem from PowerVR (again) and perform 50% faster at 2/3 of the power consumption (according to Apple).Īll in all the chip includes 3.3 billion transistors, which is more than a current AMD Bristol Ridge (3.1) and Skylake Quad-Core (1.75) X86 SoCs. The principle is similar to the first generation of ARMs big.LITTLE concept. Therefore, apps are seeing only a dual core.

At the release of the iPhone 7 it looks like that IOS is only using two cores at a time and automatically switches between the two clusters.

Up to now its unclear if all four cores can be used at once (that need only 1/5 th of the energy in some use cases). Two high performance cores are clocked at up to 2.34 GHz and should be around 40% faster than the Apple A9 (according to Apple) and two low power cores (up to 1.1 GHz?). It integrates four 64 Bit cores that are divided in two clusters.

The Apple A10 Fusion is a system on a chip (SoC) from Apple that is built into the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. Apple A10 Fusion ► remove from comparison

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