Intel Fires Back at Apple's M1 Processors with Benchmarks

Re:Intel Fires Back at Apple's M1 Processors with Benchmarks by theluketaylor on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:44PM (#26044189)

Agreed; my M1 macbook air is the best and fastest computer I have ever owned and it isn't even close. Instantly being on from sleep has made my work intel macbook pro feel old. Teams meetings turn the intel fan into a jet engine. My M1 macbook joins zoom meetings in utter silence for many, many hours without plugging in. I have yet to see a stutter or dropped frame in the M1 UI. My work intel mac pauses when swiping between workspaces on a regular basis.

Intel should be panicking; the M1 is incredible.

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Re:Intel Fires Back at Apple's M1 Processors with Benchmarks by hinkley on Saturday February 06, 2021 @12:04AM (#26044271)

Isn’t a misleading benchmark the sort of thing you publish when you’re panicking?

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Re:Intel Fires Back at Apple's M1 Processors with Benchmarks by theluketaylor on Saturday February 06, 2021 @12:09AM (#26044295)

That was what I meant to imply, but it wasn't very clear. Intel is grasping at whatever straws it can think of since they have lost the fab advantage and their power usage is out of control.

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Re:Intel Fires Back at Apple's M1 Processors with Benchmarks by DougN7 on Saturday February 06, 2021 @12:55PM (#26048340)

I wonder how much of this is because of the OS?

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Re:Intel Fires Back at Apple's M1 Processors with Benchmarks by rbanffy on Saturday February 06, 2021 @05:51PM (#26050847)

Apple has the opportunity to tune macOS to their hardware like nobody else and now they can also tune their hardware to macOS.

M1 is the result of that.

But the M1 also has another advantage over the Intel chips that preceded it in Macs - it's actually a beast of a CPU, with a huge reorder buffer and lots of execution ports to drain it.

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