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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: 0.399s | source
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nostromo ◴[12 Nov 20 03:07 UTC] No.25065960[source]▶
So... I'd be feeling pretty silly right now if I bought the Mac Pro in 2019 for like $7,000. (Which I almost did!)

https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/457

M1 is comparable to baseline Mac Pro on multicore performance and better on single core performance. And several thousand dollars cheaper (and smaller).

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sthnblllII ◴[12 Nov 20 03:27 UTC] No.25066071[source]▶
There are very few reasons to buy the Mac Pro with the lowest CPU option. This here is the comparison to make and it crushes the M1's multithreaded score of 7,000 with a score of almost 19,000:

https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/mac-pro-late-2019-intel-x...

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1. andreasley ◴[12 Nov 20 03:37 UTC] No.25066146[source]▶
If the Geekbench scores are to be believed, the M1 in the MacBook Air scores 7,500 multithreaded. So yeah, the 28-core Mac Pro is quite a bit faster (and can sustain that performance), but the performance of the Air looks extremely good.
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2. sthnblllII ◴[12 Nov 20 03:52 UTC] No.25066236[source]▶
It does look very promising. One can only imagine what future Mac Pros will be capable of. And thanks for the correction.