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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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