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 ernesth on Thursday November 12, 2020 @05:21AM (#25068392)

So you mean Apple has this huge advantage of 5nm compared to 7nm but failed to outperform AMD? What a failure.

(that was sarcasm. My take is this performance is impressive but you should not be surprised if it does not completely outperform CPUs that should be less efficient)

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by lliamander on Thursday November 12, 2020 @04:51PM (#25075587)

> So you mean Apple has this huge advantage of 5nm compared to 7nm but failed to outperform AMD?

I understand you are being sarcastic, but no, that's not what's not what I'm saying.

It is Apple Silicon that is faster (at least on paper). I'm saying I think even though AMD will have worse perf/watt, I think it will get impressively close despite it's less efficient fabrication process.

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