Apart from the iPhone 12 series, Apple‘s new MacBook series also share the limelight this year, especially due to the M1 chipset onboard. The chipset is a powerhouse CPU whose innovative design and performance could provide a huge boon for Apple. The processor has already appeared on Geekbench with a score that dwarfs all other laptop processors in its category including the Intel Core-i9.Apple M1 chip features

The Apple M1 has now been spotted on AnTuTu benchmark with a stunning and record-breaking 1.1 million score. As far as we know, this is the first time any device will be scoring over a million points on AnTuTu. For starters, the upcoming Qualcomm Snapdragon 875 AnTuTu score had leaked with the chip pulling 847,868 points.

The score is said to have been found on AnTuTu’s database onboard MacBook AIr listed in disguise as an iPad Pro. The data shows that the M1 chip score reached 1119243 points, of which the CPU score is 282265 points, the GPU score is 538944 points, and the MEM score is 189921 points. The device also had a UX score of 108,113 points.

When the benchmark performance is compared to the Apple A12Z-powered iPad Pro 4 512GB version, the MacBook Air’s CPU score leads 50.65%. The GPU score is also 43.78% better, MEM is 64.98% higher as well as the UX which improves over that of the iPad Pro 4 by 38.66%. The iPad Pro 4 has a total score of 755294 which the M1 surpasses by 48.19%.

The M1 chip AntuTu score is said to be the first to have surpassed 1 million points under the current AnTuTu V8 iOS version. The  M1 chip is manufactured using the 5nm process technology. It has an 8-core CPU, including 4 high-performance cores and 4 high-efficiency cores, with a power consumption of only 10W.

In terms of graphics cards, Apple M1 has an 8-core GPU that can perform 25,000 threads of work simultaneously. Through Apple’s neural engine and ARM architecture classic large and small core design, coupled with excellent GPU performance, the new MacBook series has a significant performance improvement. (via)

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