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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by stu2b50 on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:42PM (#25127779)
Uh, unless there's some new Qualcomm chip I haven't heard of, the Qualcomm chips are all being utterly crushed by Apple's offerings in geek bench and specperf.
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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by tinodotim on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:58PM (#25128038)
Guess we'll see (maybe) in December (Snapdragon 875 will be announced December 1st at Qualcomms Digital Summit) - or a bit later, but the 875, now also on 5nm, supposedly will be quite a bump. Leaked (supposed) benchmarks show 30%+ improvement, which would be A14 territory.

I also have my doubts, but would be great for the market. (New Exynos 2100 supposedly also being up there.)

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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by bydo on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @02:21PM (#25128357)
A 30% improvement to the 865+ starts getting close to A13 single-threaded performance, on 7nm from a year ago.

So Qualcomm won't be quite so far behind Apple, but it's still pretty significant.

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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by tinodotim on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @04:01PM (#25129769)
Sure, more interesting than just pure CPU performance will be improvements to GPU, image processing, ML and others though - at least in my eyes.

If we'll just look at geekbench's single core bench, I'm sure Apple will still lead. (And overall likely still produce the better chips.)

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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by leptons on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:59PM (#25128052)
Qualcomm chips don't have on-chip DRAM at the highest clock rate possible. If they did the same things Apple is doing in that way, the performance advantage of M1 shrinks. There's no real "magic" in the M1 or Apple, it's a reality distortion field that is hitting everyone right now. It's entirely possible to outperform the M1, there just hasn't been a need to do that until now - no major OS would have benefitted from an ARM on steroids before now so there wasn't even a need for it.
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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by dang on Thursday November 19, 2020 @12:43AM (#25146606)
If you continue to degrade the quality of this site even further, we will have to ban your account. We've asked you about this more than once already.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by leptons on Sunday November 22, 2020 @08:23PM (#25182677)
Where have you asked me more than once? Please point me to that. If so, then I'm sorry, but I don't remember being told anything like that before this comment.
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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by dang on Sunday November 22, 2020 @10:03PM (#25183204)
It was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24475231

Sorry I said "more than once" — I didn't notice those two comments were in the same thread.

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Re:16-inch MBP 2x slower than M1 MacBook Air in a real-world... by leptons on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:46PM (#25204368)
It's pretty amazing to me that you consider that comment "mean". How do you ever interact with the world if such a benign comment is considered "mean"? I'm serious, I just can't understand how that comment is "mean". Please try to explain it, because it makes no sense to me. Is any criticism at all considered "mean" now? Can anyone point out flaws in someone else's comment or post without being called "mean"?
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