M1 Family

Comparing 4 tiers. Where a tier has multiple variants, values show the range across all configurations.

Spec M1 Ultra M1 Max M1 Pro M1
CPU
CPU Cores 20 10 8 – 10 8
Performance Cores 16 8 6 – 8 4
Performance Core Speed (GHz) 3.2 3.2 3.23 3.2
Efficiency Cores 4 2 2 4
Efficiency Core Speed (GHz) 2.06 2.06 2.06 2.06
L2 Cache (MB) 96 48 24 16
SLC Cache (MB) 96 48 24 8
GPU
GPU cores 48 – 64 24 – 32 14 – 16 7 – 8
Execution Units 768 – 1024 384 – 512 224 – 256 112 – 128
ALU Count 6144 – 8192 3072 – 4096 1792 – 2048 896 – 1024
TFLOPS 15.8 – 21.2 7.8 – 10.4 4.5 – 5.2 2.3 – 2.6
GPU Vendor 4th-gen Apple 4th-gen Apple 4th-gen Apple 4th-gen Apple
NPU
Neural Engine cores 32 16 16 16
Neural Engine TOPS 22 11 11 11
Memory
Memory bandwidth (GB/s) 819.2 409.6 204.8 68.3
Memory bus width (bits) 1024 512 256 128
Memory channels 8 4 2 8
Memory channel width (bits) 128 128 128 16
Memory type LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR5-6400 LPDDR4X-4266
Memory options (GB) 64
128
32
64
16
32
8
16
Media Engine
Hardware Acceleration H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
ProRes RAW
H264
HEVC
ProRes
Video Decode 2 1 1
Video Encode 4 2 1
ProRes Engines 4 2 1
Semiconductor Tech
Process node (nm) 5 5 5 5
Transistors (billion) 114 57 33.7 16
Release date 2022-03-18 2021-10-26 2021-10-26 2020-11-10

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