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Apple M1 (7-GPU) vs Apple M3

Last updated: 2026-06-04

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 79 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 75 %

Apple M1 (7-GPU)

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M3

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

112 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

137 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

509 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

659 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,503 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

1,965 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,759 pts

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,437 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

2,369

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

3,125

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

8,576

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

11,863

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

1,742

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

2,150

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

8C / 8T · 3.20 GHz

7,650

8C / 8T · 4.06 GHz

10,450

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 (7 Core)

2,290

Apple M3 (10 Core)

3,550

AI performance (NPU)

8C / 8T · 0.60 GHz

11.0 TOPS

8C / 8T · 0.70 GHz

35.0 TOPS

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

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

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Apple M3
Family	Apple M series (38)	Apple M series (38)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	Apple M3 (6)
Architecture	M1	M3
Technology	5 nm	3 nm
Segment	Notebook	Notebook
Socket
Predecessor		Apple M2
Successor		Apple M4

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Apple M3
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	4x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz	4x Ibiza P-Core 0.70 - 4.06 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	4x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz	4x Ibiza E-Core 0.74 - 2.75 GHz
L2-Cache	16.00 MB	20.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Apple M3
GPU name	Apple M1 (7 Core)	Apple M3 (10 Core)
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.39 - 1.40 GHz
CUs / Shader	112 / 896	160 / 1280
Raytracing	✗	✓
Max. displays	2	2
Max. GPU Memory	8 GB	24 GB
Technology	5 nm	3 nm
Release date	Q4/2020	Q4/2023

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Apple M3
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS	16 Neural cores @ 35 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Apple M3
Memory	LPDDR4X-4266 (68.2 GB/s)	LPDDR5-6400 (102.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	16 GB	24 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Apple M3
TDP	18 W	22 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up	25 W
TDP down	10 W	15 W
T. junction max.		100 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1 (7-GPU)	Apple M3
Chip design	Monolithic	Monolithic
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	macOS	macOS, iPadOS
Instruction set	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q4/2020	Q4/2023
Release price
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User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M1 (7-GPU) is 4.7 stars (71 ratings), while Apple M3 has received 4.6 stars (1638 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M1 (7-GPU)
8C / 8T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

Apple M3
8C / 8T · 0.70 - 4.06 GHz

★★★★★