Why is Apple's M1 SO FAST?

Apple's M1 System-on-Chip has demonstrated astonishing levels of performance. Is this a carefully orchestrated gimmick, or is Apple Silicon genuinely offering x86-beating performance?

In this video, I attempt to explain the M1's advantages and answer that question.

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[JustVisiting]

That’s the best analysis of the M1 chip that I’ve seen.

[truecuckoo]

The best geek channel on the internet. Thanks for educating us with such clarity. 🙏🏽

[mazor]

I remember laughing... Now I want the m1 mini.

[jimheinzman]

Watching this on my M1 MacBook Pro. This laptop is the best laptop I've owned. It runs everything quickly. Video editing is a breeze and I've pretty much quit using the desktop for that and can edit videos on the fly.

[proudmullet]

Before buying a Mac Mini M1 I have seen ALL the reviews on youtube, in English and Spanish. You sir, are making the best videos by far. Technical but accessible to people not so expert as it is my case, without raising your voice too much. Top class. Thank you very much.

[ennuied]

m1 made me divorce windows. They can have their 'think different' slogan back.

[halimboy]

watching this in my M1 macbook air. this machine just incredible, out of this world. never would i imagine using my macbook on blanket, on my lap, doing work without worrying the heat.

[casperes]

M1 has an extremely wide out-of-order rearrangement buffer. I.e. it can look ahead *a lot* of instructions. This also may be part of why some people have seen good performance with less RAM than they would usually consider "needed". It can request memory loads from the SSD far in advance of needing the data, so while it's working on other data, the SSD will ready up the request in the mean time. - All desktop chips basically do this, but M1 can do it further in advance than most

[Spele]

As usual you do an excellent job of giving a simple explanation of a complex system

[stephenhavilland]

Greetings from Portland, Oregon! I am a Senior Citizen who is also a geek. My first computer was a DOS machine. I really appreciate the evolution of the technology. I love the 13 inch ultrathin and light form factor, whether MAC or PC. I have limited financial means, so whatever I purchase has to work well today and be future-proof. The machines I will be saving for are either the M1 MacBook M1X or the Lenovo X1 Nano. At this point, I am strongly leaning towards the explanation was BRILLIANT!

[armandosabrinaaguilar]

There’s no competition. I’ve owned a mac for about 5 years. I worked at a place that gave me a surface pro. Great, but on the same level as my mac. I moved to another company that gave me a $3500 Mac Pro laptop. Wow. Fantastic. Loved it. I recently purchased a Mac mini with M1 chip. I also recently was offered a job with a new company. This company provided me with a $6000 Dell Precision 7750.

My new $1000 Mac mini M1 absolutely destroys it.

[chass]

Excellent and balanced analysis. I've been using Macs since 1985 and even an old grizzled veteran like me is still marvelling at how damn fast my new M1 16GB mini is. What has really surprised me is how well and how seamlessly Rosetta 2 performs—truly an under-appreciated aspect of the new systems. This is a paradigm shift in technology, particularly as it has immense scalability. Fugaku, the world's most powerful supercomputer is the first ever to be built on ARM and its performance beats the No. 2 machine Summit, which runs on Intel, by a factor of three.

Expect to see this kind of architecture being widely deployed in data centres in the coming years if for nothing else than its outrageous performance at low power levels.

ARM has come of age and is set to revolutionise all aspects of the industry in ways that we can not yet imagine.

[kevinsturges]

This is so simple and well explained. No goofy faces, chop edits, multiple cutaways or hip hop music. Subscribed!

[Xiao]

how can you not subscribe to this guy. The video starts at 00:01, no long intro, no hype, no promises or baits to watch the full video. Good on you sir. Have my sub and bell, Thank you

[johnkellett]

Many years ago when PCs used MSDOS the practice I was working for used Apricot computers which were faster. I also went at that time to a computer show where Acorn were demonstrating their new RISC chip. A chap on the next stand was demonstrating their new ‘super’ PCs but Acorn realised that by running the same software on the RICS at the same time (co-ordinating hitting the ‘start’) that even running Windows (it was new then) in emulation the RISC chip was noticeably faster :-) The semi-monopoly operated by Micro$oft masks a poor product in comparison to the British software in the mid 1980s. My wife was a columnist on Acorn User magazine and her Acorn RISC powered laptop still worked the last time we tried 3 or 4 years ago when we sold the working RISC desktop.
I’ve never really got on with Micro$oft’s hype ever since :-)

[applerunner]

Nice Video (and btw, I do listen to your podcasts to the end 😁). I just edited a 4:44m H.264 4K video in FCP on my M1 MB Air. Title, Color grading, Ken Burns effects, stabilization. Exported to 1080p (to a Samsung T5) for youtube in less than real time (2:45m to be exact). Super happy!

[TylerEdwards]

I just picked up the M1 MacBook Pro 16GB and I have already initiated the trade-in process for my 2013 4-core Mac Pro. It is faster in every way. It is really a bridge to hold me over until a more pro level M1 Mac comes out, but I needed something now because my Mac Pro has been struggling with video edits lately. It is crazy that this laptop is more powerful than my old tower haha. Great video!

[matthewturner]

Excellent video as always and very well explained! Do you think this is the end to pcie graphics cards for apple? I guess adding a graphics card like we do today would undo what they've created by having the graphics chip on top of the cpu.

[greebo]

Great explanation. But, I f i may sum up: Apple's SoC stuff is freaking awesome, and they've only just got started.

[silviasanchez]

I remember MacBooks with RISC/ARM architecture back in 2004-2006. Everyone was hyped and then Apple decided to put it aside and use Intel. Some of my friends (and myself) were so disappointed. Now I see this and I'm happy. Hope this time lasts.