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183 points ahamez | 2 comments | 09 Apr 25 12:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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giancarlostoro ◴[09 Apr 25 12:41 UTC] No.43631399[source]▶
Does something like Whisky work in the new macOS Apple Silicon world? I assume its quite a bit slower to simulate Windows while at the same time translating x86 to Apple Silicon. I ask because this would be a justified break from this project, it's kind of a nightmare setup, you're better off just buying a $300 Windows laptop at Walmart or something.
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jchw ◴[09 Apr 25 12:54 UTC] No.43631504[source]▶
The thing is, "Apple Silicon" computers are very fast. They are, obviously, not the fastest computers you can possibly buy, but rather than monetize fast CPU cores Apple mainly monetizes SSD and RAM and does minimal segmentation on the CPU, so even the lowest end Mac devices are absurdly fast compared to low end PCs. Rosetta is also pretty fast, depending on the workload, since the hardware is specialized to support fast x86 emulation.

I reckon a lot of games on Apple Silicon would end up GPU bound before CPU bound.

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bjourne ◴[09 Apr 25 13:29 UTC] No.43631838[source]▶
CPU benchmarks such as PassMark does not indicate that Apple Silicon has a performance edge over Intel or AMD CPUs in any price range: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
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1. Thews ◴[09 Apr 25 13:43 UTC] No.43631997{3}[source]▶
Here's where they shine, https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
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2. mceachen ◴[09 Apr 25 15:00 UTC] No.43632925[source]▶
To my eye that looks essentially like a tie, which may seem like not that big of a deal.

When I run compilation and multithreaded integration tests on my chonky AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (16 cores, 32 threads) on Ubuntu 24.04, and on my 2020 M1 Mac mini (8 cores), *the mini keeps up*. It’s quite impressive.