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Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) vs MediaTek Dimensity 8020

Last updated: 2026-06-06

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)

Rank 2 - 47 %

MediaTek Dimensity 8020

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)

Rank 2 - 28 %

MediaTek Dimensity 8020

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

2,397

8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

1,125

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,439

8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

3,631

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

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

1,783

8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

839

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

10C / 10T · 3.20 GHz

12,693

8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

3,328

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

Apple M1 Max (32 Core)

10,600

ARM Mali-G77 MP9

979

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

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

AI performance (NPU)
218 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	MediaTek Dimensity 8020
Family	Apple M series (38)	Mediatek Dimensity (38)
CPU group	Apple M1 (9)	MediaTek Dimensity 8000 (4)
Architecture	M1	Cortex-A78 / Cortex-A55
Technology	5 nm	5 nm
Segment	Notebook	Smartphone / Tablet
Socket
Predecessor
Successor	Apple M2 Max (38-GPU)

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	MediaTek Dimensity 8020
CPU Cores / Threads	10 / 10	8 / 8
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✗
Core architecture	hybrid (big.LITTLE)	hybrid (big.LITTLE)
Core Cluster 1:	8x Firestorm 0.60 - 3.20 GHz	4x Cortex-A78 2.60 GHz
Core Cluster 2:	2x Icestorm 0.60 - 2.06 GHz	4x Cortex-A55 2.00 GHz
L2-Cache	28.00 MB
L3-Cache
Overclocking	✗	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	MediaTek Dimensity 8020
GPU name	Apple M1 Max (32 Core)	ARM Mali-G77 MP9
GPU frequency	0.39 - 1.30 GHz	0.85 GHz
CUs / Shader	512 / 4096	9 / 144
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays	5	1
Max. GPU Memory	32 GB	4 GB
Technology	5 nm	7 nm
Release date	Q3/2021	Q2/2019

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	MediaTek Dimensity 8020
AI hardware	Apple Neural Engine
AI specifications	16 Neural cores @ 11 TOPS
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	MediaTek Dimensity 8020
Memory	LPDDR5-6400 (409.6 GB/s)	LPDDR4X-4266 (34.1 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	16 GB
Memory channels	4	4
ECC	No	No
PCIe	4.0
PCIe Bandwidth

Thermal Management

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	MediaTek Dimensity 8020
TDP	45 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up
TDP down
T. junction max.

Technical details

Wischen	Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)	MediaTek Dimensity 8020
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✗
Operating systems	macOS	Android
Instruction set	Armv8.5-A (64 bit)	Armv8-A (64 bit)
ISA extensions	Rosetta 2 x86-Emulation
Release date	Q3/2021	Q2/2023
Release price
Documents		Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Apple M1 Max (32-GPU) is 4.8 stars (209 ratings), while MediaTek Dimensity 8020 has received 4.5 stars (38 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Apple M1 Max (32-GPU)
10C / 10T · 0.60 - 3.20 GHz

★★★★★

MediaTek Dimensity 8020
8C / 8T · 2.60 GHz

★★★★★