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Apple M1 Pro (10-core)
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
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
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)
- 2,380Top 78%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 12,400Top 59%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 1,530Top 90%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 12,350Top 75%
Quick answers
Is the Apple M1 Pro (10-core) good in 2026?
The Apple M1 Pro (10-core) earns an Inno Score of 44/100 (“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 i7-12700H, Intel Core Ultra 5 226V, Intel Core i7-1360P — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
