



My scores for reference (single-core/multi-core/Metal): Maybe not for machine learning or H.265 encoding, but for run of the mill creative work. I think Geekbench 4 reflected reality for purposes like mine much better. The Metal scores have also skewed in favour of the new hardware. In fact, even my iPhone 12 mini gets multi-core results that are almost as good as the 12 core Mac Pro, which strikes me as absurd. But this benchmark skews the results drastically in favour of the M1. View in context View all replies Mid-2010 Macbook Pro: To Upgrade or Update Welcome to Apple Support Community A forum where Apple customers help each other with their products. It will accept 16 GB RAM and naturally you can also install a SSD. The exception is for something like hardware accelerated H.265 encoding where the Mini does exceptionally well. It is a quad core and came with CPUs up to 2.7 GHz. I have a Mac Pro 2013 12 core that, in most tasks (especially 4K video editing & colour grading), is comparable with my Mac mini M1, and in some tasks outperforms it by a decent margin. IMO the value of this benchmark for creative users has become even more dubious than it already was.
