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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by rbanffy on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:51PM (#25073338)
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.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by GeekyBear on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:58PM (#25074153)
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.

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