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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 | 1 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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martinald ◴[12 Nov 20 03:28 UTC] No.25066078[source]▶
What's actually more interesting to me than Intel vs ARM is how much further ahead Apple is vs the competition. The snapdragon 8cx is about 1/3rd the speed in both Single and Multicore performance of the M1.

How is Apple so far ahead even with the same instruction set?

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macawfish ◴[12 Nov 20 03:37 UTC] No.25066141[source]▶
Probably has something to do with the 5nm process.
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1. wmf ◴[12 Nov 20 03:45 UTC] No.25066182[source]▶
Qualcomm and Samsung have access to 5nm.