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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: 0s | source
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userbinator ◴[12 Nov 20 03:33 UTC] No.25066103[source]▶
I wonder what Linus thinks of Geekbench's accuracy now:

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=136526&curpost...

https://www.realworldtech.com/forum/?threadid=185109&curpost...

Personally I'm not convinced, until I see something like SPECint/SPECfp results.

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saagarjha ◴[12 Nov 20 03:56 UTC] No.25066262[source]▶
> We've seen this before: cellphones tend to have simpler libraries that are statically linked, and at least iOS uses a page size that would not be relevant or realistic on a general purpose desktop setup.

This is an interesting thing to say considering that 1. most apps on iOS use large dynamic libraries and 2. Apple silicon Macs run on 16K pages, just like iOS.

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1. justincormack ◴[12 Nov 20 08:40 UTC] No.25067769[source]▶
The M1 runs with 4k pages, unlike the iPhone chips.
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2. saagarjha ◴[12 Nov 20 08:43 UTC] No.25067776[source]▶
I believe that is only for Rosetta, and A14 shares the capability but does not use it.