Re:MacBook Air M4
by drodgers on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @06:45PM
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Yes. You need to go to server class chips (eg. threadripper) before beating the raw multi-core performance of a top-spec M4 Max in a Macbook pro, and the battery life is still crazy good!
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What gave me pause was when my base-spec M1 Air handily beat my admittedly old server (Xeon E5-2650v2) on a single-core compute-bound task [0] (generating a ton of UUIDs). I know Ivy Bridge is 12 years old at this point, but I didn’t expect it to be 2x slower.
EDIT: Also, I know the code in the link is awful; the point is doing a 1:1 comparison between the architectures.
[0]: https://gist.github.com/stephanGarland/f6b7a13585c0caf9eb64b...