Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by fouc on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:34PM (#25066111)

> Update: There's also a benchmark for the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 chip and 16GB RAM that has a single-core score of 1714 and a multi-core score of 6802.

It doesn't make much sense for the Macbook Pro to have a lower score than the Macbook Air.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:36PM (#25066132)

I noticed that too. But it’s one score for the Pro versus four for the Air.

Assuming it is sampling error?

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by brundolf on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:24AM (#25066744)

It's also possible that the fan comes into play more with a sustained load. I believe their clocks are the same, but I'm sure the Air has to start throttling at a certain point once it gets hot.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by randmsie on Thursday November 12, 2020 @05:41AM (#25068501)

Isnt the chip the exact sane in these devices? The air scores are probably going to tank massively when thenal throttling kicks in. There should be a decent performance gap between these machines then

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