13-MacBook Pro M1 chip 16GB 256GB SSD Touch Bar and Touch ID

Apple M1 chip

The M1’s bread-and-butter. What does Apple’s new Arm-based chip have that Intel’s x86 architecture doesn’t? Well, it uses a 5nm process, for one. Apple cpu has 8cores, which would typically require you to step up to intel's H series product stack to get on mobile chips.  Four of the M1’s cores are dedicated to high-power performance, while the other 4 are for low-power efficiency. That evens out to a 10W thermal envelope overall, with the low power cores supposedly taking up a tenth of the power needed for the high-power cores. The chip also has a total of 16 billion transistors. The M1 is also a system on a chip (SOC) with integrated graphics and onboard memory. The included GPU has 8 cores as well, with 128 total compute units and 2.6 teraflops of throughput (there is one exception here: the entry level MacBook Air uses a version of the M1 with a 7-core GPU). 

Apple M1 chip with 8‑core CPU, 8‑core GPU, and 16‑core Neural Engine
16GB unified memory
256 GB SSD storage
13-inch Retina display with True Tone
Backlit Magic Keyboard - US English
Touch Bar and Touch ID
Two Thunderbolt / USB 4 ports
Accessory Kit
Software
Photos, iMovie, GarageBand
Pages, Numbers, Keynote
macOS