With industry-leading performance, powerful features, and
incredible efficiency, M1 is Apple’s first chip designed
specifically for the Mac
Apple® today announced M1, the most powerful chip it has ever
created and the first chip designed specifically for the Mac®. M1
is optimized for Mac systems in which small size and power
efficiency are critically important. As a system on a chip (SoC),
M1 combines numerous powerful technologies into a single chip, and
features a unified memory architecture for dramatically improved
performance and efficiency. M1 is the first personal computer chip
built using cutting-edge 5-nanometer process technology and is
packed with an astounding 16 billion transistors, the most Apple
has ever put into a chip. It features the world’s fastest CPU core
in low-power silicon, the world’s best CPU performance per watt,
the world’s fastest integrated graphics in a personal computer, and
breakthrough machine learning performance with the Apple Neural
Engine. As a result, M1 delivers up to 3.5x faster CPU performance,
up to 6x faster GPU performance, and up to 15x faster machine
learning, all while enabling battery life up to 2x longer than
previous-generation Macs. With its profound increase in performance
and efficiency, M1 delivers the biggest leap ever for the Mac.1
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“There has never been a chip like M1, our breakthrough SoC for
the Mac. It builds on more than a decade of designing
industry-leading chips for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, and
ushers in a whole new era for the Mac,” said Johny Srouji, Apple’s
senior vice president of Hardware Technologies. “When it comes to
low-power silicon, M1 has the world’s fastest CPU core, the world’s
fastest integrated graphics in a personal computer, and the amazing
machine learning performance of the Apple Neural Engine. With its
unique combination of remarkable performance, powerful features,
and incredible efficiency, M1 is by far the best chip we’ve ever
created.”
First System on a Chip for the
Mac
Macs and PCs have traditionally used multiple chips for the CPU,
I/O, security, and more. Now with M1, these technologies are
combined into a single SoC, delivering a whole new level of
integration for greater performance and power efficiency. M1 also
features a unified memory architecture that brings together
high-bandwidth, low-latency memory into a single pool within a
custom package. This allows all of the technologies in the SoC to
access the same data without copying it between multiple pools of
memory, further improving performance and efficiency.
The World’s Best CPU Performance
per Watt
M1 features an 8-core CPU consisting of four high-performance
cores and four high-efficiency cores. Each of the high-performance
cores provides industry-leading performance for single-threaded
tasks, while running as efficiently as possible. They are the
world’s fastest CPU cores in low-power silicon, allowing
photographers to edit high-resolution photos with lightning speed
and developers to build apps nearly 3x faster than before. And all
four can be used together for a huge boost in multithreaded
performance.
The four high-efficiency cores deliver outstanding performance
at a tenth of the power. By themselves, these four cores deliver
similar performance as the current-generation, dual-core MacBook
Air® at much lower power. They are the most efficient way to run
lightweight, everyday tasks like checking email or browsing the
web, and preserve battery life like never before. And all eight
cores can work together to provide incredible compute power for the
most demanding tasks and deliver the world’s best CPU performance
per watt.
The World’s Fastest Integrated
Graphics
M1 includes Apple’s most advanced GPU. It benefits from years of
analysis of Mac applications, including everyday apps and
challenging pro workloads. With industry-leading performance and
incredible efficiency, the GPU in M1 is in a class by itself.
Featuring up to eight powerful cores capable of running nearly
25,000 threads simultaneously, the GPU can handle extremely
demanding tasks with ease, from smooth playback of multiple 4K
video streams to rendering complex 3D scenes. With 2.6 teraflops of
throughput, M1 has the world’s fastest integrated graphics in a
personal computer.
Blazing-Fast, On-Device Machine
Learning
The M1 chip brings the Apple Neural Engine to the Mac, greatly
accelerating machine learning (ML) tasks. Featuring Apple’s most
advanced 16-core architecture capable of 11 trillion operations per
second, the Neural Engine in M1 enables up to 15x faster machine
learning performance. In fact, the entire M1 chip is designed to
excel at machine learning, with ML accelerators in the CPU and a
powerful GPU, so tasks like video analysis, voice recognition, and
image processing will have a level of performance never seen before
on the Mac.
More Innovative Technologies
Packed into M1
The M1 chip is packed with a number of powerful custom
technologies, including:
- Apple’s latest image signal processor (ISP) for higher quality
video with better noise reduction, greater dynamic range, and
improved auto white balance.
- The latest Secure Enclave for best-in-class security.
- A high-performance storage controller with AES encryption
hardware for faster and more secure SSD performance.
- Low-power, highly efficient media encode and decode engines for
great performance and extended battery life.
- An Apple-designed Thunderbolt controller with support for USB
4, transfer speeds up to 40Gbps, and compatibility with more
peripherals than ever.
macOS Big Sur Optimized for
M1
macOS® Big Sur is engineered, down to its core, to take full
advantage of all the capability and power of M1, delivering a
massive boost in performance, astonishing battery life, and even
stronger security protections. With M1, things users do every day
feel noticeably faster and smoother. Just like iPhone® and iPad®,
the Mac now instantly wakes from sleep. Browsing with Safari® —
which is already the world’s fastest browser — is now up to 1.5x
speedier at running JavaScript and nearly 2x more responsive.2
With Big Sur and M1, Mac users can run a greater range of apps
than ever before. All of Apple’s Mac software is now Universal and
runs natively on M1 systems. Existing Mac apps that have not been
updated to Universal will run seamlessly with Apple’s Rosetta® 2
technology. And iPhone and iPad apps can now run directly on the
Mac. Additionally, the foundations of Big Sur are optimized to
unlock the power of M1, including developer technologies from
Metal® for graphics to Core ML® for machine learning.
Start of a Two-Year Transition for the Mac
M1 powers the new MacBook Air, 13-inch MacBook Pro®, and Mac
mini®. They join the rest of the Mac product line to form the
strongest Mac lineup ever. This is the beginning of a transition to
a new family of chips designed specifically for the Mac. The
transition to Apple silicon will take about two years to complete,
and these three systems are an amazing first step.
1“World’s fastest CPU core in low-power silicon”: Testing
conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction 13-inch
MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip and 16GB of RAM measuring
peak single thread performance of workloads taken from select
industry standard benchmarks, commercial applications, and open
source applications. Comparison made against the highest-performing
CPUs for notebooks, commercially available at the time of testing.
Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and
reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Pro. “World’s best
CPU performance per watt”: Testing conducted by Apple in October
2020 using preproduction 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1
chip and 16GB of RAM. Performance per watt refers to the ratio of
peak CPU performance to average power consumed using select
industry standard benchmarks. Comparison made against
high-performing CPUs for notebooks and desktops, commercially
available at the time of testing. Performance tests are conducted
using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate
performance of MacBook Pro. “World’s fastest integrated graphics in
a personal computer”: Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020
using preproduction 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with Apple M1 chip
and 16GB of RAM using select industry standard benchmarks.
Comparison made against the highest-performing integrated GPUs for
notebooks and desktops, commercially available at the time of
testing. Integrated GPU is defined as a GPU located on a monolithic
silicon die along with a CPU and memory controller, behind a
unified memory subsystem. Performance tests are conducted using
specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance
of MacBook Pro.
2“World’s fastest browser”: Testing conducted by Apple in August
and October 2020 using JetStream 2, MotionMark 1.1, and Speedometer
2.0 performance benchmarks on browsers that completed the test.
Tested with prerelease Safari 14 and latest stable versions of
Chrome, Firefox, and (Windows) Microsoft Edge at the time of
testing, on Intel Core i5-based 13-inch MacBook Pro systems with
prerelease macOS Big Sur and Windows 10 Home running in Boot Camp;
12.9-inch iPad Pro (4th generation) units with prerelease iPadOS®
14 and Intel Core i7-based Microsoft Surface Pro 7 systems with
Windows 10 Pro; and iPhone 11 Pro Max with prerelease iOS 14 and
Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra with Android 10. Devices tested with a
WPA2 Wi-Fi network connection. Performance will vary based on
usage, system configuration, network connection, and other factors.
“Up to 1.5x speedier at running JavaScript and nearly 2x more
responsive”: Testing conducted by Apple in September and October
2020 using JetStream 2 and Speedometer 2.0 performance benchmarks.
Tested on preproduction MacBook Air and Mac mini systems with Apple
M1 chip and 8-core GPU, as well as production 1.2GHz quad-core
Intel Core i7-based 13-inch MacBook Air systems and 3.6GHz
quad-core Intel Core i3-based Mac mini systems, all configured with
16GB RAM, 2TB SSD, and prerelease macOS Big Sur. Tested with
prerelease Safari 14.0.1 and WPA2 Wi-Fi network connection.
Performance will vary based on system configuration, network
configuration, network connection, and other factors.
Apple revolutionized personal technology with the introduction
of the Macintosh in 1984. Today, Apple leads the world in
innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV.
Apple’s five software platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and
tvOS — provide seamless experiences across all Apple devices and
empower people with breakthrough services including the App Store,
Apple Music, Apple Pay, and iCloud. Apple’s more than 100,000
employees are dedicated to making the best products on earth, and
to leaving the world better than we found it.
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