The integrated graphics card in the M1 offers 8 cores (7 cores in the entry MacBook Air) and a peak performance of 2.6 teraflops. Those should offer a better-sustained performance according to Apple. The M1 is available in two TDP variants, a passive cooled 10 Watt variant for the MacBook Air and an active cooled faster variant for the MacBook Pro 13 and Mac Mini. The efficiency cores (E cluster) clock with 600 - 2064 MHz, the performance cores (P cluster) with 600 - 3204 MHz. The four efficiency cores are a lot smaller and offer only 128 KB instruction cache, 64 KB data cache, and 4 MB shared cache. According to Apple the performance of these cores should be better than anything on the market (in late 2020). The big cores offer 192 KB instruction cache, 128 KB data cache, and 12 MB shared L2 cache. It offers 8 cores divided in four performance cores and four power-efficiency cores.

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