Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores

Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores by gpm on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @09:14PM (#45433242)

I claim that the M1 (macbook air) is fast. I also claim it's about half the speed of my similarly priced desktop of the same vintage for slow tasks that I care about.

So I guess we've caught up with the desktop now.

Actually I assume we caught up awhile ago if I used the beefy multi core MX-Ultra variants they released, really just the base model has caught up. On the other hand I could have spent four times as much for twice as many cores on my desktop as well.

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Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores by Panzer04 on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @06:14AM (#45436110)

You can buy laptops with essentially identical CPU performance to desktop plugged in nowadays, so long as you aren't thinking of thread ripper.

On the move laptops will always be a bit slow because all the tricks to save idle usage don't help much when you're actually putting them to work.

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