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Apple A9X vs Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Last updated: 2026-06-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 34 %

Apple A9X

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 12 %

Apple A9X

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.26 GHz

763

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.26 GHz

1,251

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

10,412

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.26 GHz

652

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,768

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

2C / 2T · 2.26 GHz

1,198

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

9,996

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple A9X

499

Apple M1 Pro (14 Core)

4,580

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

AnTuTu 8 Benchmark
118 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple A9X	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
Family	Apple A series (27)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple A9/A9X (2)	Apple M1 (9)
Architecture	A9	M1
Technology	16 nm	5 nm
Segment	Smartphone / Tablet	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor	Apple A8X
Successor	Apple A10X Fusion

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple A9X	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
CPU Cores / Threads	2 / 2	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	normal	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	2x Twister 2.26 GHz	6x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz
Core Cluster 2:		2x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz
L2-Cache	3.00 MB	24.00 MB
L3-Cache	4.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple A9X	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
GPU name	Apple A9X	Apple M1 Pro (14 Core)
GPU frequency	0.65 GHz	0.39 - 1.30 GHz
CUs / Shader	48 / 384	224 / 1792
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	1	3
Max. GPU Memory	4 GB	32 GB
Technology	16 nm	5 nm
Release date	Q3/2015	Q3/2021

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple A9X	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
AI hardware		Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications		16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple A9X	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
Memory	LPDDR4-3200 (51.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	4 GB	32 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe		4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple A9X	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
TDP	8 W	35 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple A9X	Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
Chip design	Chiplet	Monolithic
AES-NI	✗	✓
Operating systems	iOS	macOS
Instruction set	Armv8-A (64 bit)	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions		Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q3/2015	Q3/2021
Release price
Documents

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple A9X is 3.7 stars (18 ratings), while Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU) has received 4.9 stars (256 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple A9X
2C / 2T · 2.26 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M1 Pro (8-CPU)
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★