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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by ricardobeat on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:41PM (#28936211)
If the latest gen, top cpu is “almost 2x as fast” it will still lose to the parent’s “literally 2 times faster” M1. While using 4x more power.
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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by rahimnathwani on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:47PM (#28936314)
Right but GP's main points were:

- noticeable faster in just everything

- literally 2 times faster [compiling code]

Neither of these statements is true when comparing against the latest generation, which is the relevant comparison.

The power thing is true, but irrelevant to GP's point and my objection to it.

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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by EugeneOZ on Thursday October 21, 2021 @02:45AM (#28941176)
I was comparing 2 computers I have (read the comment I replied to). But if you are saying that passively cooled Apple notebook should be compared to last-gen Intel desktop CPU with powerful cooler - Apple enginers would be honored to read it ;)
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