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

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Post by antipaul » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 12:56 AM UTC

Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro
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Post by saagarjha » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:30 AM UTC

It's interesting that the Mac Mini is clocked slightly lower than the laptops.

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Post by vondur » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:35 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #2

It's interesting that the Mac Mini is clocked slightly lower than the laptops.

Yeah, that's odd. I figured it would be clocked higher as it can probably have the best cooling of all of the M1 devices.

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Post by thesandlord » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:37 AM UTC

vondur wrote: post #3

saagarjha wrote: post #2

It's interesting that the Mac Mini is clocked slightly lower than the laptops.

Yeah, that's odd. I figured it would be clocked higher as it can probably have the best cooling of all of the M1 devices.

It might be a lower-binned part that can't run as fast. Assuming the best chips will go to the Pro.

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Post by LIV2 » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:38 AM UTC

Is geekbench accurate at comparing across different architectures?

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Post by LeoPanthera » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:38 AM UTC

Has Geekbench for Mac been ported to ARM or is it running in Intel emulation mode?

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Post by mettamage » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:40 AM UTC

I wonder what the Macbook Pro 16 inch late 2019 is on the single core score. Not having the same devices in both single core and multi core makes me sceptical.

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Post by varispeed » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:42 AM UTC

I really really hope that in real life scenarios this will be much faster than Intel CPUs, in case a wake up slap from AMD will not do. Maybe Intel will swallow its pride and design a new CPU for TSMC.

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Post by grecy » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:44 AM UTC

mettamage wrote: post #7

I wonder what the Macbook Pro 16 inch late 2019 is on the single core score. Not having the same devices in both single core and multi core makes me sceptical.

No need to wonder [1], it's right around 1070

[1] https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/search?q=MacBook+pro+16

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Post by waterhouse » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 1:44 AM UTC

How long does Geekbench take to run? Long enough to reach thermal equilibrium?