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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 | 3 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.414s | source
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faitswulff ◴[12 Nov 20 04:22 UTC] No.25066407[source]▶
This really flips the argument that Mac hardware is overpriced and underpowered on its head. Now Apple computers are a premium product from a performance perspective, as well.
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michaelmrose ◴[12 Nov 20 04:56 UTC] No.25066593[source]▶
Shouldn't we wait for non synthetic benchmarks to be performed by third parties running real applications?

We could even compare some cross platform apps across both OS and cpu and see how the total package performs.

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1. kccqzy ◴[12 Nov 20 07:20 UTC] No.25067331[source]▶
I've personally found Geekbench results representative of real time workloads. So do more traditional benchmarks like SPECint.
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2. michaelmrose ◴[12 Nov 20 08:19 UTC] No.25067664[source]▶
Fantastic since many pieces of kit have been released to the public wherein both geekbench and more traditional measurements of actual performance exist can you point out some instance where real benchmarks are well correlated with differences in geekbench score?
3. sirn ◴[12 Nov 20 10:12 UTC] No.25068327[source]▶
Anandtech has done SPECint on A14 and result is consistent with what we've seen from M1 on Geekbench. It's not the same CPU, but they share the same Firestorm/Icestorm cores.

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