Moving on to graphics, the Intel Mac Pro on Vega II 32GB had four times better performance than the Apple silicon Mac mini on 16GB. The thermal test revealed that even at full load, it was still less hot than Mac Pro. The M1 Mac mini just consumed 13 watts this is mind-blowingly low consumption partially due to its 5nm architecture against Intel chip’s 14nm.īecause of lower power consumption, the M1 Mac mini stays cooler than its predecessor. ProcessorĪlthough Mac Pro’s multi-core scores were impressive, the tester was expecting more due to the higher 193 watts consumption of the bigger machine. The scores for the single-core performance were surprisingly higher on the M1 Mac mini but in multi-core performance, Mac Pro was ahead by 63% in Geekbench and 83% in Cinebench scores. Apple to equip 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Air with M3 chipsīeginning with processors, put Apple Silicon Mac mini with an 8-core CPU (4 high-performance and 4 high-efficiency cores) up against Mac Pro 3.3GHz 12-core Intel Xeon W.

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