Re:A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM
by neogodless on Friday December 11, 2020 @03:29PM
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The Ryzen 4000 laptop chips outperform Intel's as much as 45% in benchmarks, while getting 33% better battery life.
The M1 is roughly competitive with the Ryzen 4000 chips (depending on variances in TDP, cooling, etc.) but arguably gets as much as double the battery life.
No argument that it's an advancement of CPU technology, but I think you might have some magical thinking if you think momentum doesn't matter.
It's not like suddenly 100% of buyers look at only benchmarks where the M1 leads, or only at battery life, or only at software that runs on the M1 rather than all the software they use.
If users were only looking at CPU benchmarks, AMD would have a lot higher market share, and the same will be said about the M1 after a year as well. Will Apple users replace Intel laptops in record numbers? Probably! But the conversion of Windows users will be slow regardless of hardware.
The M1 is roughly competitive with the Ryzen 4000 chips (depending on variances in TDP, cooling, etc.) but arguably gets as much as double the battery life.
No argument that it's an advancement of CPU technology, but I think you might have some magical thinking if you think momentum doesn't matter.
It's not like suddenly 100% of buyers look at only benchmarks where the M1 leads, or only at battery life, or only at software that runs on the M1 rather than all the software they use.
If users were only looking at CPU benchmarks, AMD would have a lot higher market share, and the same will be said about the M1 after a year as well. Will Apple users replace Intel laptops in record numbers? Probably! But the conversion of Windows users will be slow regardless of hardware.