Apple’s November 2020 Event: By the Numbers

Apple sprinkled facts, figures, and statistics throughout its presentation today about the new Macs it announced. Here are highlights of some of those stats from the event, which was held online from the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California.

Apple’s M1 Chip

Built using an industry-leading 5 nanometer process

Houses 16 billion transistors

8 CPU cores total: 4 high-performance and 4 high-efficiency cores

The high-efficiency cores have a 128KB instruction cache, 64KB data cache, and shared 4MB L2 cache

Uses 1/4 the power compared to the latest PC laptops running at full performance

Performance per watt has increased 3x since 2012

8 GPU cores total

128 execution units, up to 24,576 concurrent threads, 2.6 teraflops, 82 gigatexels/second, and 41 gigapixels/second

Uses 1/3 the power compared to the latest PC laptop GPUs running at full performance

Features Gen 4 PCI Express and a USB-4 controller

16 Neural Engine cores that can do 11 trillion operations per second

MacBook Air

3x faster than the best selling Windows laptop in its class

Faster than 98% of PC laptops

Up to 3.5x faster CPU than previous model

Up to 5x faster graphics than previous model

Up to 9x faster machine learning than previous model

13.3” 2560 x 1600 resolution Retina display with P3 color that has 25% more colors than sRGB displays

Can drive a 6K display

Supports Wi-Fi 6

18 hours of battery life, a 6 hour increase, plus 15 hours of web browsing

2x battery life on video calls

2x faster SSD that can be configured up to 2TB

Up to 16GB of unified memory

0 fans

Starts at $999

Mac mini

7.7” square design

Up to 3x faster CPU than previous model

Up to 6x faster graphics than previous model

Up to 15x faster machine learning than previous model

Up to 2TB SSD that support 3.3GB/s sequential read speeds

Up to 16 GB unified memory

Can drive a 6K display

Supports Wi-Fi 6

Up to 60% more energy efficient

2 Thunderbolt / USB-4 ports

Starts at $699

13” MacBook Pro

2.8x faster CPU than previous model

5x faster graphics than previous model

11x faster machine learning than previous model

20 hours of battery life

17 hours of web browsing

4x faster code compiles

Up to 16GB unified memory

13.3” 2560 x 1600 resolution Retina display with 500 nits of display brightness and P3 color that has 25% more colors than sRGB displays

Can drive a 6K display

Supports Wi-Fi 6

Up to 2TB SSD that support 3.3GB/s sequential read speeds

Starts at $1299