Apple Silicon is ratcheting up the pressure on Intel’s flagship processors.
We knew that the M1 App Silicon processors were fast. Right out of the gate, Apple is blowing away the competition. And this is just the beginning. But the new M1 iPad Pro shows just how much pressure Apple is putting on existing chipmakers, especially chip-giant Intel. Geekbench 5 data uncovered by MacRumors shows just how powerful the new iPad Pro is. Powered by Apple’s first-generation silicon (yes, keep that in mind), the M1 chip in the iPad Pro gives it enough horsepower to easily beat a maxed-out Intel Core i9-powered 16-inch MacBook Pro. And the MacBook Air is even faster. Pitting the M1 chip (this data is for the one on the MacBook Air, but the iPad Pro chip seems essentially identical) against the Core i9, we get average single-core and multi-core Geekbench 5 scores of 1,701 and 7,378 for the M1, and 1,091 and 6,845 for the Core i9.
