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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 | 1 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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YetAnotherNick ◴[12 Nov 20 05:17 UTC] No.25066720[source]▶
No, they aren't. All of the top results have crazy overclocking and liquid cooling. You need to look the numbers here: https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks. Top end Zen 3 is slightly lower than M1.
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trynumber9 ◴[12 Nov 20 05:36 UTC] No.25066806[source]▶
Not exactly.

You can check the clock speeds: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/4620493.gb5

Up to 5050MHz is stock behavior for the 5950X and it's using standard DDR4 3200 memory.

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baybal2 ◴[12 Nov 20 06:36 UTC] No.25067097[source]▶
Yet it still makes it very clear: a properly implemented ARM core can easily bury an X86 of equivalent size because of inherent advantage of not having to pay interest on 40 years of technical debt in the ISA.
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throwaway2048 ◴[12 Nov 20 06:46 UTC] No.25067150[source]▶
ISA has very little to do with it, ARM is almost as old as x86.
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1. GreenHeuristics ◴[12 Nov 20 07:30 UTC] No.25067399{5}[source]▶
AArch64/ARM64 was developed from the ground up, not bolted on to the old 32-bit ISA