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Re:Don’t Trust Activity Monitor on M1 Macs by rocqua on Monday May 02, 2022 @08:42AM (#31234396)
> just as they would on an Intel processor with its identical cores.

Whilst its true that all intel macs have identical cores, the latest intel architecture also has Efficiency cores that are different from the performance cores.

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Re:Don’t Trust Activity Monitor on M1 Macs by bloopernova on Monday May 02, 2022 @10:22AM (#31235475)
I was curious about this, and I found this explanation of the Intel Alder Lake series:

https://superuser.com/questions/1677692/what-are-performance...

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