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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by hbOY5ENiZloUfnZ on Monday October 18, 2021 @03:21PM (#28910259)
It was written very small in grey text on the bottom right of the slide. I didn't notice it during the presentation but people posted screenshots on Twitter. The "Compact pro PC laptop" is Razer Blade 15 Advanced (rz09-0409ce53) and "High-end PC laptop" is MSI GE76 Raider (11UH-053). You can see if you pause at 22:46[0]. Both of these have RTX 3080s and in Apple's chart their chips are slightly slower but at much lower power. What we don't know if what benchmark they used for this comparison since 375 "relative performance" isn't a defined metric.

[0] https://youtu.be/exM1uajp--A?t=1366

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by croutonwagon on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:42PM (#28911434)
What does the vertical axis mean in those graphs? "Relative performance" seems made up.

Certainly there are tasks they can do to skew that one way or another.

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by easton on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:50PM (#28912258)
Probably covering their butts in case whatever benchmark they used works differently on ARM vs x86, or if there are weird macOS differences. If there were a bunch of performance patches made to the Mac version of Shadow of the Tomb Raider that made it faster on macOS, that's not because of a faster chip (just an example, I don't know how they benchmark).
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