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Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

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1080 points antipaul | 2 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.533s | source
1. ACow_Adonis ◴[12 Nov 20 03:23 UTC] No.25066044[source]▶
Reposting from other thread:

So can anyone comment on how we should interpret these benchmarks:

a) Across the various Mac models (i.e. why buy a pro vs the air vs the mini). If they all benchmark the same, what am I paying the difference for?

b) The M1 chip vs a ryzen desktop (naively interpreting this its punching up near a 5950X, which seems TGTBT?). How do these chips compare against the larger TDP competitors if portability and batteries aren't an issue?

b2) Compared to the AMD mobile chips? (i don't have much insight into these)

c) someone else on here posted a Tiger-lake intel chip benchmark beating the M1. Now that makes even less sense to me now, because now there's an intel mobile chip beating the top of the line Ryzen desktop?

Help out an honestly confused individual.

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2. dnh44 ◴[12 Nov 20 10:04 UTC] No.25068289[source]▶
I think those number are peak performance and not necessarily sustained performance, but I don’t know enough about geekbench to be 100% sure.

The pro and the mini have fans so they should be able to maintain these speeds for longer than the air which will presumably have to throttle down as it heats up.