MacBook Air Outperforms 16 - Inch MacBook Pro

 

When the Geekbench Scores were released, it became abundantly clear that the Apple’s new MacBook Air with M1 Chipset performs better than the 16 - inch MacBook Pro. For the first time ever, on 10 November, Apple launched its PC and Laptops powered by its new silicon M1 chipset.

It announced the release of 13-inch MacBook Pro, new MacBook Air and new Mac Mini. In India, the pricing of MacBook Air starts at Rs 92,900; the 13-inch MacBook Pro at Rs 1,10,610. Whereas, the Mac Mini price is starting at Rs 64,900.

What Is Geekbench?

GeekBench is a processor measuring program that runs a series of tests on a processor and measures times as how long the processor takes to complete the tasks. The quicker the CPU completes the test - the higher will be the GeekBench score.

It will stress all the cores simultaneously and report an aggregate for all the cores, therefore it is multi-threaded in nature. One thing that differentiates Geekbench from other CPU measuring benchmarks is it produces steady results across several different platforms including: Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, BlackBerry, and iPhone.

Review From Geekbench

According to the first benchmark of the new M1 chip shared on Geekbench, and as per the results, the MacBook Air powered by M1 chip outperforms the 16-inch MacBook Pro. It scored 1,687 on single-core and 7,433 on multi-core. The M1 chipset has a 3.2 GHz base frequency, according to the benchmark. It features 8 GB RAM.

As per the score, the M1 chip in the MacBook Air outperforms all the iOS devices. The iPhone 12 Pro earned a single-core score of 1,584 and a multi-core score of 3,898. On the other hand, the A14 iPad Air, highest - ranked iOS device on Geekbench's charts – also earned a single-core score of 1,585 and a multi-core score of 4,647.

Apple's M1 Chip

Apple designed its first ever ARM-based system on a chip (SoC) M1, as a central processing unit (CPU) for its Mac Computers. Until now, a Mac needed multiple chips to deliver all of its features such as the processor, security, memory and so on.

But with M1, all these technologies are integrated into a single system on a chip (SoC), delivering a level of more simplicity, amazing performance and more efficiency. In short, the entire system of a Mac under one single chip. It is the first personal computer chip ever built using a 5 nm(nanometer) process.

Written by - Mickel Lepcha

Edited by - Keerthana Lakshmi