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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 | 6 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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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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whalesalad ◴[12 Nov 20 04:41 UTC] No.25066520[source]▶
The M1 is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s an MVP desktop arm chip.

M2, M3... that is when I think we will see stellar performance against things like Ryzen.

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1. nathanvanfleet ◴[12 Nov 20 05:07 UTC] No.25066661[source]▶
I dunno. I find it hard to believe that their next chips will be more powerful. You must have an inside with Apple to know this
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2. mlyle ◴[12 Nov 20 05:14 UTC] No.25066701[source]▶
So this is it-- the fastest chip they'll ever ship? No more progress can be expected?

I hope your comment is sarcasm :P

3. rhencke ◴[12 Nov 20 05:19 UTC] No.25066728[source]▶
I'm as skeptical as the next person, but.. Apple's track record on delivering solid performance improvement year after year in their chips has been solid for quite a while now.. [1]

It'd be more surprising at this point if it _wasn't_ more powerful.

[1] https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks

4. r00fus ◴[12 Nov 20 05:20 UTC] No.25066730[source]▶
The snark is strong with this one.
5. tonyedgecombe ◴[12 Nov 20 05:48 UTC] No.25066872[source]▶
They wouldn't have announced the full transition if they weren't confident they could deliver. They would have kept the ARM for the low end models and Intel for the high end.
6. GeekyBear ◴[12 Nov 20 10:24 UTC] No.25068405[source]▶
> I find it hard to believe that their next chips will be more powerful.

>Whilst in the past 5 years Intel has managed to increase their best single-thread performance by about 28%, Apple has managed to improve their designs by 198%, or 2.98x (let’s call it 3x) the performance of the Apple A9 of late 2015.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...