Interestingly, the same source opines that the M1X will be “based on the M1/A15 cores”, even though the M1 was itself based on the A14 chip. These scores would put the M1X way beyond the current scores listed for the Apple M1 in Geekbench’s Metal chart, with the 8-core GPU part recording an average benchmark of 21,168 points. Yuryev reckons the M1X with 16-core GPU could manage 46,240 points in Geekbench Metal while the 32-core GPU edition powers up to double of the former, at 92,480 points. The graphics performances for two variants of the M1X SoC are also quite astonishing.
This should be expected, as it is M1-powered devices such as the Mac mini and MacBook Pro 13 that head that particular chart at the moment.
The single-core prediction of 1,740 points also looks very healthy for the Apple M1X, putting it at the very top of the current Geekbench table for Mac devices. That latter very-expensive desktop (expect to pay at least US$7,999 for a 16-core model) is certainly no slouch, with Geekbench recording an average score of 14,596 points for the Intel Xeon W-3245 in this particular computer. The Geekbench multi-core score offered up by Yuryev stands at 15,070 points, which would put this particular hypothetical M1X-based device above the 16-core Mac Pro (Late 2019). Just after Apple's event introducing the new MacBook Pro models with M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, the first benchmark for the high-end M1 Max chip with 10-core CPU and 32-core GPU appears to. The M1 MacBook Pro earned a multi-core Cinebench score of 7508, and a single-core score of 1498, which is similar in performance to some of Intels 11th-generation chips. And an entry-level Mac mini (which hasn’t been updated since 2018) delivers. Vadim Yuryev, co-host of the popular Max Tech YouTube channel, has had a go at predicting the synthetic benchmark performance of the M1X, and it certainly bodes well for the next-generation Apple Silicon. The latest MacBook Air, with its entry-level processor, scores around 1,100 for single-core and 2,200 for multi-core. The Apple M1 has certainly managed to challenge the established hierarchy in the past, so it’s easy to see why greater performance should be offered by a more powerful successor.
Regardless of the name of the SoC that should be powering the expected upcoming MacBook Pro 14 and MacBook Pro 16, many commenters are predicting that the so-called M1X will be an absolute beast of a processor. It should be noted from the offset that Apple hasn’t even confirmed the M1X chip yet, although there have been some signs pointing to its existence.