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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: 0.511s | source
1. bosswipe ◴[12 Nov 20 03:46 UTC] No.25066192[source]▶
A better comparison would be the new XPS 13 which beats it at single core but only has 4 cores to MacBookAir10's 8 https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/4309589?baselin...
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2. kllrnohj ◴[12 Nov 20 14:49 UTC] No.25070434[source]▶
The M1 is a 4+4 big.little core configuration. It only has 4 fast cores, not 8. In a multi-threaded workload those little cores will still help, sure, but not nearly as much.

Hence why in that multi-core result the 4c Intel is way closer to the 8c M1 than it "should" be.