{"id":4838,"date":"2020-11-20T18:54:54","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T00:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/?p=4838"},"modified":"2020-11-20T20:34:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T02:34:14","slug":"apple-m1-chip-cpu-and-gpu-benchmark-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/apple-m1-chip-cpu-and-gpu-benchmark-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple M1 Chip CPU and GPU Benchmark Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received my 2020 mac mini today (US$ 699). Since this is the first product with Apple M1 chip CPU, I am curious to find out its performance. I ran some tests using benchmark apps including Blackmagic and Cinebench.<\/p>\n<p>This Apple M1 chip is 8 cores and 8 threads. FYI, Apple said it has <a href='https:\/\/www.apple.com\/mac\/m1\/' target='_blank' rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">25000 concurrent threads<\/a>, it means the CPU can execute 25k jobs at the same time. Its like a kitchen with 8 chefs working on 25k orders. It doesn&#8217;t mean there are 25k chefs in the kitchen. <\/p>\n<p>Here are the specification of this CPU (<a href='https:\/\/www.apple.com\/mac-mini\/specs\/' target='_blank' rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a>): <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>8-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores<\/li>\n<li>8-core GPU (A nVidia GPU such as the one in GeForce RTX 2060 has 1920 cores)<\/li>\n<li>16-core Neural Engine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Testing Multi Core Performance of Apple M1 Chip Using Cinebench R23<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-Multi_Core.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"852\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4841\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Testing Single Core Performance of Apple M1 Chip Using Cinebench R23<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-Single_Core.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"789\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4842\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Testing CPU and GPU Performance of Apple M1 Chip Using GeekBench 5<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4855\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/apple-m1-chip-cpu-and-gpu-benchmark-results\/apple-m1-cpu-performance-gpu2\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-GPU2.png\" data-orig-size=\"502,393\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-GPU2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-GPU2.png\" src=\"http:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-GPU2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"393\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4855\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-GPU2.png 502w, https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-GPU2-300x235.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CPU: Single-Core Score: 1746; Multi-Core Score: 7192; <a href='https:\/\/browser.geekbench.com\/v5\/cpu\/4885663' target='_blank' rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detail Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li>GPU: OpenCL Score: 18288; <a href='https:\/\/browser.geekbench.com\/v5\/compute\/1892170' target='_blank' rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Detail Report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Testing Machine Learning Performance Using MLBenchy<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4850\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/apple-m1-chip-cpu-and-gpu-benchmark-results\/apple-m1-cpu-performance-gpu\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-GPU.png\" data-orig-size=\"510,781\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-GPU\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-GPU.png\" src=\"http:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-GPU.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"510\" height=\"781\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4850\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-GPU.png 510w, https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-GPU-196x300.png 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the result:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nInceptionV3 Run Time: 1434ms\r\nNudity Run Time: 393ms\r\nResnet50  Run Time:1364ms\r\nCar Recognition  Run Time:473ms\r\nGoogleNetPlace  Run Time:410ms\r\nGenderNet Run Time: 597ms\r\nTinyYolo Run Time: 806ms\r\n\r\nInceptionV3 Run Time: 121ms\r\nNudity Run Time: 83ms\r\nResnet50  Run Time:72ms\r\nCar Recognition  Run Time:114ms\r\nGoogleNetPlace  Run Time:111ms\r\nGenderNet Run Time: 86ms\r\nTinyYolo Run Time: 146ms\r\n\r\nInceptionV3 Run Time: 91ms\r\nNudity Run Time: 76ms\r\nResnet50  Run Time:136ms\r\nCar Recognition  Run Time:72ms\r\nGoogleNetPlace  Run Time:147ms\r\nGenderNet Run Time: 87ms\r\nTinyYolo Run Time: 72ms\r\n\r\n\r\n \r\nDone running the 3 iterations of the benchmark \r\n<\/pre>\n<hr \/>\n<p>And finally, if you are curious about the SSD performance of the mac mini&#8230;<\/p>\n<h3>Testing Disk Performance of Mac Mini SSD Using Blackmagic Speed Test<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4839\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/apple-m1-chip-cpu-and-gpu-benchmark-results\/apple-m1-cpu-performance-disk\/#main\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-Disk.png\" data-orig-size=\"675,702\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-Disk\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-Disk.png\" src=\"http:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-Disk.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"675\" height=\"702\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-Disk.png 675w, https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Apple-M1-CPU-Performance-Disk-288x300.png 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 675px) 100vw, 675px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am quite surprise about its overall performance. The single core performance of Apple M1 chip is better than Intel i9-9880 and i7-1165. It will be quite useful if I need to perform some non-parallel computations. The multiple core performance of Apple M1 is quite impressive too. If you take a look to the result, you will notice that most of the CPUs that have better scores have more cores and threads. I really don&#8217;t expect a $700 computer that can beat the CPU that costs a thousand dollars or more.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received my 2020 mac mini today (US$ 699). Since this is the first product with Apple M1 chip CPU, I am curious to find out its performance. 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