It has two different types of cores with 4 high-performance cores and 4 high-efficiency cores.Īccording to Apple, it's the highest performance processor Apple has ever made. It is the first 5-nanometer chip with 16 billion transistors. Apple has announced the first chip dedicated for the Mac, it's the Apple M1. There are no comprehensive benchmarks for the new Apple Macs so far, so it's hard to make any kind of comparison with older Macs, however, this is what we learnt from Apple's announcement of the new Apple Mac computers.Īpple is developing a family of new Apple Silicon chips. Are the new Apple Mac computers powerful enough? If you are thinking of buying a new Apple Silicon Mac for using as a studio computer for either music production or post-production then it's worth considering these things first before making the leap to the new M1 powered Apple Mac.
