iMac 24-inch (M1)

M1, May 2021

Scores

Single-core

No data

Multi-core

No data

GPU (Metal)

No data

Keynote claims, measured

Not measurable with Geekbench

  • “Up to 85 percent faster CPU performance, so users can export their favorite video project in iMovie faster than ever, easily work with massive 100-megapixel photos in Lightroom, and compile new apps in Xcode in a fraction of the time.”

    Apple’s footnote compares with the 3.0 GHz 6-core Core i5 21.5-inch iMac; the dataset’s 2019 iMac is the base 3.6 GHz quad-core Core i3.

    iMac 24-inch (M1) announcement, April 2021, Apple Newsroom, iMac 24-inch (M1) announcement, April 2021

  • “Up to 2x faster GPU performance for certain apps like Affinity Photo and Photoshop, and up to 50 percent faster than the most powerful discrete graphics in the fastest 21.5-inch iMac, allowing users to render edits in real time or add complex filters to their photos in a snap.”

    App workloads, and the baseline configuration is not in the dataset.

    iMac 24-inch (M1) announcement, April 2021, Apple Newsroom, iMac 24-inch (M1) announcement, April 2021

  • “Up to 3x faster machine learning in apps that leverage the 16-core Neural Engine in M1.”

    Neural Engine; Geekbench 6 does not test it.

    iMac 24-inch (M1) announcement, April 2021, Apple Newsroom, iMac 24-inch (M1) announcement, April 2021

iMac single-core, by generation

DeviceSingle-coreChange over the previous generation
iMac 20-inch (Mid 2007)No dataFirst in this line
iMac 20-inch (Early 2008)No data
iMac 20-inch (Early 2009)No data
iMac 21.5-inch (Late 2009)No data
iMac 21.5-inch (Mid 2010)No data
iMac 21.5-inch (Mid 2011)No data
iMac 21.5-inch (Late 2012)No data
iMac 21.5-inch (Late 2013)No data
iMac 21.5-inch (Late 2015)No data
iMac 21.5-inch (2017)No data
iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2019)No data
iMac 24-inch (M1), 2021, this deviceNo data
iMac 24-inch (M3), 2023No data
iMac 24-inch (M4), 2024No data
iMac 24-inch (M6), 2026No data

Against other devices

The iMac 24-inch (M1) has no scores to compare.