M1 iMac benchmarks found on Geekbench
- A week before the new iMac begins shipping to customers, benchmarks have already been found on Geekbench.
- The results for the new M1 iMac aren’t drastically different from those of the M1 MacBook Pro and Mac mini.
- These results appear to be from the base model 24-inch iMac.
As the M1 chip continues its supremacy in the market, it’s not a big surprise to learn that the M1 iMac outperforms the M1 MacBooks, which were released in the fall of 2020. Apple recently released a new 24” iMac at its Spring Loaded event. The new iMac is powered by the same M1 chip as its younger MacBook brothers.
Benchmarks for the new M1 powered iMac have recently surfaced on the internet, promising a huge upgrade over its predecessors. The benchmarks found on Geekbench show the possibility of a 56% upgrade in single-core performance and a 24% upgrade in multi-core performance, compared to its predecessors with the Intel CPUs. The leaked benchmarks for this new iMac are slightly better than those from last year’s M1 MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and Mac mini, with an increase in aggregate multi-core CPU performance score of just over 100. The full report found on Geekbench is shown below.
The benchmark results shown were run on a Mac labelled iMac21,1 (which is probably the cheapest entry-level 7-core GPU model), running macOS 11.3. The 8 CPU cores show a base frequency of 3.2GHz. According to these results, the 2021 M1 iMac far outperforms the now-antiquated 2019 21.5” model equipped with an Intel chip (which produced a Geekbench single-core score of 1109, a whopping 56% lower score than the new 24” iMac). The M1 also dominates Intel’s 10th generation Comet Lake chip (found in the high-end 27” iMac) in single-core performance by 38% — however, multi-core performance is a different story. In that regard, the Intel chip has a solid lead of 25% over the M1, with a multi-core score of 9002. Therefore, the M1 iMac isn’t yet able to fully outperform the highest-end Intel iMac, although this might change with the introduction of a new Apple Silicon Mac chip. However, the new 2021 24” M1 iMac is a more than viable replacement for the 21.5” models, according to these leaked benchmarks.
It is likely that the benchmarks were run on iMacs sent to tech reviewers and the media before the embargo ends and reviews are published. Pre-orders for the M1 iMac began on 30th April, with expected shipment of the products to its customers starting next week. It will be interesting to see the performance reviews of this new iMac from customers around the globe.
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