We have benchmarks of Apple's ARM based developer kit show up online
If you been following the tech news lately, last week at WWDC 2020, Apple announced they would shipping their very first Silicon Mac by the end of 2020. Apple developers have begun receiving their Developer Transition Kit hardware that resembles Mac minis, as seen in the image above this post. Apple is preparing developers for a variety of upcoming Silicon Macs. Included in the kit is an A127 SoC paired with 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB SSD.
Even though developers must sign confidential clauses, benchmarks numbers from Developer Transition Kits have managed to find its way on Geekbench online. Now, this is not tested on actual machines but done so using virtualization/transition, using Apple's own Rosetta 2 technology, representing how apps will operate when they haven't ported to function on a new native platform.
The benchmark scores go as follows, the machines posted numbers around 800 on the Geek-bench v5 single-core, and 2600 on multi-core. The ARM chips in both laptops and desktops will be more efficient in both battery and thermals, allowing the optimized chip to achieve higher performance levels.
Keep in mind; the Developer Transition Kit is meant for developers to port apps, which is the primary goal. Apple will ship the hardware to customers that will feature higher levels of performance. It will power a much larger-unmodified A12Z chip, designed by Apple around the 2018/2020 iPad Pro. According to reports I’ve read online, there is speculation that the MacBook Air will be the first to make the transition to Apple silicon. Some believe the 13-inch MacBook Pro will be Apple’s first choice, followed by a redesigned 24-inch iMac that will make it's way to the consumer market in 2021.
