Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

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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]▶

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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. jasonv ◴[12 Nov 20 05:18 UTC] No.25066721[source]▶

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That’s my guess. I’m a Mac house but I have two gaming machines arriving Friday for some rendering projects. I really wanted to wait to see what Apple released, but I figure two things: I’m not traveling much in the next year, so I’ll have a desktop year, 2) not a good idea to get v1 of new Apple things. I hope they’ll have new 2nd gen things in the market next year and I’ll come back.

Apple often has 2-3 future generations in development. This was just the first complete design they turned into a product.

That RAM design, tho...

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