Apple Silicon M1 MacBook Pro Earns 7508 Multi-Core Score in Cinebench Benchmark

The new M1 Macs are now arriving to customers, and one of the first people to get the new ‌M1‌ 13-inch MacBook Pro with 8-core CPU, 8-core GPU, and 8GB unified memory has run a much anticipated R23 Cinebench benchmark on the 8GB 13-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ with 512GB of storage to give us a better idea of performance.


Cinebench is a more intensive multi-thread test than Geekbench 5, testing performance over a longer period of time, and it can provide a clearer overview of how a machine will work in the real world.

The ‌M1‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ earned a multi-core Cinebench score of 7508, and a single-core score of 1498, which is similar in performance to some of Intel's 11th-generation chips.

Comparatively, a 2019 16-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ with 2.3GHz Core i9 chip earned a multi-core score of 8818, according to a MacRumors reader who benchmarked his machine with the new R23 update that came out last week. The 2.6GHz low-end 16-inch ‌MacBook Pro‌ earned a single-core score of 1113 and a multi-core score of 6912 on the same test, and the high-end prior-generation MacBook Air earned a single-core score of 1119 and a multi-core score of 4329.

Other Cinebench R23 scores can be found on the CPU Monkey website for both multi-core and single-core performance.

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It's worth noting that the new ‌M1‌ Macs are lower performance machines that aren't meant for heavy duty rendering tasks. The ‌M1‌ ‌MacBook Pro‌ replaces the low-end machine, while the ‌MacBook Air‌ has always been more of a consumer machine than a Pro machine.

Apple does have plans for higher-end Pro machines with Apple Silicon chips, but the company has said that it will take around two years to transition the entire Mac lineup to Arm-based chips. The Cinebench scores for the ‌MacBook Air‌ bode well for future Macs that are expected to get even higher performance M-series chips.

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Top Rated Comments

mikethebigo Avatar
57 months ago
Hahaha suck it my 16" MBP still has a tiny bit better prolonged multicore performance

please just let me have this so I don't buy a new Mac today
Score: 138 Votes (Like | Disagree)
cmaier Avatar
57 months ago
Now waiting for all the normal complainers to say it’s meaningless because cinebench is too short a test.
Score: 40 Votes (Like | Disagree)
NT1440 Avatar
57 months ago

Just to be clear, for anyone who has used Cinebench in the past— this is the new version, so the scores have different values from before.

My 10900k in my PC just benched 14,217 multicore. So... M1 is not the PC crusher yet, in Cinebench at least.
Cool, how many watts does your rig run off of? And why are you comparing the entry level to your machine anyway? Can you link us to your entry level computer with 15 hour battery life?
Score: 31 Votes (Like | Disagree)
MacBoy88 Avatar
57 months ago
Just amazing.
Score: 28 Votes (Like | Disagree)
justperry Avatar
57 months ago

I can't think of how this makes Intel look good in any light.
The M1 is also fanless, no?
Yes, no fans inside, only in front of it. ;)
Score: 24 Votes (Like | Disagree)
macsplusmacs Avatar
57 months ago
So...

These things are real.

Bring. It. On.
Score: 23 Votes (Like | Disagree)