Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end...
by GeekyBear on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:38PM
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The current gen iPhone chip using the same cores literally outperforms anything Intel makes on a per core basis.
Zen 3 slightly outperforms the iPhone chip, but it runs it's clocks slower to stay inside a 5 watt power draw.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...
So, yes. Expect it to outperform Tiger Lake and Zen 3, at least on a per core basis.
Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end...
by rbanffy on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:51PM
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Remember the intel part has 8 fast cores while M1 has 4 (and 4 puny ones which really doesn't count). The Intel part also uses SMT to squeeze some extra parallelism that the reordering plumbing can't.
Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end...
by GeekyBear on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:58PM
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Yes, Intel makes parts with more cores, but their entry level chips only have two cores.
Apple chips with more cores will come in time as well.
It's the per core performance, especially at a given power draw, that matters going forward.
That's exactly what I said. It's faster, but not an order of magnitude faster and different workloads will perform differently depending on a multitude of factors (even if benchmarks don't). Do not expect it to outperform a not-too-old top-of-the-line mobile CPU by a large margin.