Some information about the upgraded version of the Apple M1 chip or its successor ‘M1X’ has appeared on the benchmark website CPU Monkey.
It is worth mentioning that the specifications of the chip are based on actual test results of pre-samples rather than final products, and are supposed to be released in the second quarter of this year.
CPU Monkey predicts that Apple MacBook Pro 14 (2021), Apple MacBook Pro 16 (2021), and Apple iMac 27 (2021) will be equipped with this chip.
The ‘M1X’chip is a 12-core Apple Silicon chip with enhanced power consumption. As an iteration of M1, it is understandable for the chip to upgrade from 8 CPU cores to 12 CPU cores.
Additionally, the GPU of this chip has 16 cores that are equivalent to the double structure of the 8-core GPU in M1. It may be more reasonable to treat them as predictions rather than revelations of the next-generation Mac chipset.
However, the specifications of the chip are indeed consistent with those released by Apple this year. According to the list, Apple’s ‘M1X’ is still a 3.2GHz chip based on a 5nm process. If this prediction is accurate, the upgrade of this generation of ‘M1X’ will focus on the graphics part.
The listing shows that ‘M1X’ may have a 16-core GPU with a maximum of 16GB of memory. It may have 256 execution units instead of M1’s 128 and can connect three displays at the same time instead of two.
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