Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute

Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by Topfi on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @11:06AM (#49435450)

> [...] but even the M5 laptops are consistently beat on performance and battery life by Intel Windows laptops.

Hold up, in what metric/benchmark? Feel personally like we life in an age where, no matter the SOC vendor, something high performant and efficient is offered, so seeing a claim that any vendor, be it Intel, AMD, Qualcomm or Apple, is consistently outperforming another, I'd like to get more context on that.

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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by achenet on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @12:37PM (#49436818)

It seems logical in this case.

Intel were x86, Apple Silicon is ARM-based. ARM-based chips are more power-efficient.

Also, it's built on a much smaller process. 3nm, if I'm not mistaken, older Intel was something bigger than 10nm. Heck, if you take a really old Intel Mac, you have something like 65nm process, which is much less efficient than 3nm.

Here's a random benchmark I found on the internet (literally the first thing on Google, you can find more if you want) https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_core_i7_1065...

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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by NetMageSCW on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @03:24PM (#49454456)

Are you sure you read that comment correctly?

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