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Apple M1X chipset, an update to Apple’s first in-house silicon, M1, could scale up to 12 U and 16 GPU cores. 5j1p3q

By Veer Arjun Singh | Updated: 18 February 2021 19:48 IST

Apple M1X SoC Specifications, Performance Leak via Benchmarking Site

Apple M1X is expected to succeed Apple M1 — the company's first in-house chipset 6v3r62

Highlights

Apple M1X could debut in refreshed MacBook models this year
The new SoC could have 12 U and 16 GPU cores
Apple has not revealed anything about the rumoured chipset yet

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Apple M1X specifications and performance metrics have supposedly leaked via a benchmarking website. The listing suggests that the Apple M1X — the rumoured successor to the Apple M1 — will scale up to 12 U cores from the 8 U cores on its predecessor. Apple is said to be working on an update to its custom-designed, ARM-based M1 SoC launched last year, and previous leaks suggest that it could be called Apple M1X. But the listing carries a caveat that the information is based on a “pre-sample” and that the technical details, and naturally the benchmarking results, could wary for the final product. Apple, as always, has not said anything about working on a new chipset.

The specifications and performance of the Apple M1X have been expected to be called Apple M1X, will have 12 U and 16 GPU cores, up from its predecessor's 8 U and 8 GPU cores. The Apple M1X, however, is still listed to be clocked at a maximum of 3.2GHz and based on the 5-nanometre architecture — same as the M1. If the information turns out to be accurate, it looks like Apple will be focussing more on bumping up both the compute and graphics performance of its new chipset.

The listing suggests a Cinebench R23 single-core score of 1514 and a multi-core score of 14450 for the Apple M1X, ranking it below Intel Core i9-10850K, AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, and Intel Core i9-7900X (Review), on both counts. The report also ranks the Apple M1X second after Intel Core i7-11700K in Geekbench 5 (64-bit) single-core test. But the “pre sample” caveat with a sooner-than-expected listing makes the findings a little more suspect than usual.

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