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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by AnthonyMouse on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:57AM (#23598408)
The Geekbench results are questionable because they do things like give significant weight to SHA2 hashing, which is hardware-accelerated on the iPad Pro but not the older Intel processors in current Macbooks:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3006268/tested-why-the-ipad-...

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Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel by jsnell on Monday June 22, 2020 @05:20AM (#23598522)
> Geekbench is also browser-based

That's not true.

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