Apple has launched its new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, which come with the new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips.
Now that we know the exact configurations of these chips, we can start deducing the graphics performance of each chipset based on the GPU performance of the original M1 chip.
As Apple highlighted in its presentation, the new chips retain the M1 designation because they are expanded versions of the M1 architecture.
the people of Notebookcheck produced this GPU performance estimate based on the assumption that Apple increased the speed of the new GPU cores on the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips or made some other change.
So they achieved the following performance estimates in teraflops (TF):
- 8-core M1 = 2.6 TF
- 14 cores M1 Pro = 4.5 TF
- 16 cores M1 Pro = 5.2 TF
- M1 Max 24 cores = 7.8 TF
- M1 Max 32 cores = 10.4 TF
The performance of all variants is exceptional, especially considering that they consume much less power than competing chipsets from Intel, Nvidia and AMD.
As Apple pointed out during its presentation, even at peak performance, the M1 Max consumes up to 100W less than a high-end notebook with a discrete GPU.
However, the 32-core GPU of the M1 Max produces performance identical to a Nvidia RTX 2080 desktop GPU (10.07 TF) and the last one Sony PS5 Console (10.28 TF). It’s incredible performance for laptops that offer up to 21 hours of battery life.