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Apple M1 Pro (10-core)

Released Oct 26, 2021Laptop Processor

The chip that made professionals take Apple silicon seriously: eight performance cores and 200GB/s of unified bandwidth embarrassed 45W x86 rivals in 2021 while the fans barely spun. Age shows mainly in single-core now.

Pros

  • Eight performance cores with superb efficiency
  • 200GB/s unified memory bandwidth
  • ProRes acceleration transformed laptop video editing
  • Near-silent under sustained load

Cons

  • Single-core now two generations behind
  • 32GB memory ceiling
  • No hardware ray tracing or AV1 decode
42.6Inno Score

Below average

Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.

Single-core38.2
Multi-core34.4
Efficiency77.1
Platform34.5

Full specifications

Everything we track for the Apple M1 Pro (10-core)

General

Announced
2021
Process
5 nm

Cores & Clocks

Cores
10
Performance cores
8
Efficiency cores
2
Threads
10
Boost clock
3.2 GHz

Integrated GPU

iGPU
Apple 16-core GPU

Memory

Memory support
LPDDR5-6400
Max memory
32 GB

Benchmarks

Geekbench 6 (single)
2,380
Geekbench 6 (multi)
12,400
Cinebench R23 (single)
1,530
Cinebench R23 (multi)
12,350

Quick answers

Is the Apple M1 Pro (10-core) good in 2026?

The Apple M1 Pro (10-core) earns an Inno Score of 42.6/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. The chip that made professionals take Apple silicon seriously: eight performance cores and 200GB/s of unified bandwidth embarrassed 45W x86 rivals in 2021 while the fans barely spun. Age shows mainly in single-core now.

What are the key specs of the Apple M1 Pro (10-core)?

Cores: 10 · Threads: 10 · Boost clock: 3.2 GHz

What are the closest alternatives to the Apple M1 Pro (10-core)?

Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Intel Core i7-1360P, Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus X1P-64-100, Intel Core i7-13700H — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.

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