DECEMBER 2021 MACWORLD 57beat or kept pace with it. That’s impressive
and it’s the low end of Apple’s newest
chips. The other new SoC that Apple
introduced, the M1 Max, is available with a
24- or 32-core GPU, which is up to four
times faster than the M1. We’ll be testing it
as soon as we can get one in, but we
expect it to run circles around the M1 Pro.
We also used the Compute benchmark
in Geekbench 5, which benchmarks the
GPU performance using OpenCL or Metal
APIs. Since the M1 Pro has double the GPU
cores that the M1 does, we saw double the
performance. Compared to the 8GB AMD
Radeon Pro 5500M GPU in the 16-inch
Intel MacBook Pro, the M1 Pro’s 16-core
GPU provided a 69 percent improvement
in Metal and a 15 percent improvement in
OpenCL.
In addition to the beforementioned
tests, we ran a few other graphics
benchmarks that compare the M1 and M1
Pro. Predictably, the M1 Pro sped past the
M1, though it is interesting to see by how
much. A summary of the results is listed
below, and you can click the links to learn
more about each benchmark. Except
when noted, these benchmarks are not
M1 native and run using Rosetta (fave.
co/3bH1g6o).CIVILIZATION VI
1,920x1,200 High32515038HIGHER SCORES ARE BETTER14-inch MacBook ProM1 Pro 10-core (2021)
16-inch MacBook Pro2.4GHz 8-core Core i9
13-inch MacBook ProM1 8-core (2020)
24-inch iMacM1 8-core (2021)CIVILIZATION VI
1,200x800 Medium46686653HIGHER SCORES ARE BETTER14-inch MacBook ProM1 Pro 10-core (2021)
16-inch MacBook Pro2.4GHz 8-core Core i9
13-inch MacBook ProM1 8-core (2020)
24-inch iMacM1 8-core (2021)GEEKBENCH 5
Metal21,84242,86268,53425,395HIGHER SCORES ARE BETTER14-inch MacBook ProM1 Max 10-core (2021)
14-inch MacBook ProM1 Pro 10-core (2021)
16-inch MacBook Pro2.4GHz 8-core Core i9
13-inch MacBook ProM1 8-core (2020)
24-inch iMacM1 8-core (2021) 21,774GEEKBENCH 5
Open CL19,30937,33059,77427, 59 4HIGHER SCORES ARE BETTER14-inch MacBook ProM1 Max 10-core (2021)
14-inch MacBook ProM1 Pro 10-core (2021)
16-inch MacBook Pro2.4GHz 8-core Core i9
13-inch MacBook ProM1 8-core (2020)
24-inch iMacM1 8-core (2021) 19,324