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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: 0.001s | source
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zdw ◴[12 Nov 20 04:30 UTC] No.25066465[source]▶
AMD's Zen 3 (Ryzen 5xxx series) are beating the Apple M1 in single core score: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/singlecore

As another datapoint Ian (of Anandtech) estimated that the M1 would need to be clocked at 3.25Ghz to match Zen 3, and these systems are showing a 3.2Ghz clock: https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1326516048309460992

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tintor ◴[12 Nov 20 04:44 UTC] No.25066537[source]▶
5950X is 105W desktop CPU. Apple M1 is for laptops and Mac Mini.
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1. kcb ◴[12 Nov 20 04:46 UTC] No.25066549[source]▶
Single core performance usually isn't much different between laptop and desktop CPUs.
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2. derefr ◴[12 Nov 20 04:55 UTC] No.25066590[source]▶
These top scores are achieved with heavy overclocks combined with ridiculous cooling rigs. You can't really do that to a laptop. (I mean, you can in theory, but at that point it's not a laptop any more. It's ripped in half and strapped to a water block.)