The fact that we are even able to realistically compare a CPU in an ultralight laptop with no fan to an i9 is absolutely amazing. To me that would be an upgrade even if performance is a complete wash.
Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development
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#12FYI: Comparing current generation M1 to old generation AMD and Intel. Mix of laptop and desktop.
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#13Can't wait to see the Mac Pro.
The argument is over for best laptop processor. I want to see if Apple is as eager to beat the competition in the Workstation/HPC space as they were in the mobile/laptop.
I think they are, Srouji looks like he's got a knife in his teeth and can't wait to claim fastest personal computer ever period. But we'll have to see, it's a tiny, tiny market to justify the effort.
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#14Surprised SQLite was faster on Ryzen. But looks like M1 outperforms nearly everywhere else!
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#15This compares a desktop Ryzen with macbook Intel and macbook/mac-mini M1. Thermal design of the laptops likely plays a large role in the benchmark results.
I would also point out though some interesting places where the 3900x clearly wins. Looking at Naive Bayes for example, it's a nearly 10 fold difference in speed. I wonder what specific x86 optimizations help there, likely SIMD?
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#16Can't wait to see the Mac Pro. The argument is over for best laptop processor. I want to see if Apple is as eager to beat the competition in the Workstation/HPC space as they were in the mobile/laptop. I think they are, Srouji looks like he's got a knife in his teeth and can't wait to claim fastest personal computer ever period. But we'll have to see, it's a tiny, tiny market to justify the effort.
How much effort is it really? Make a version of this with more cores and cache and maybe all high-performance cores instead of heterogenous. It's just a remix of the same already designed components.
The only really tough thing would be supporting things desktop users want like external video cards, but people may be willing to forego that if the CPU smokes everything else and if the built-in GPU is at least fast enough for serious work.
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#17I wonder why the mac mini M1 seemed to sometimes underperform the macbook air M1 -- shouldn't the mac mini be outperforming the mac book air essentially across the board due to the better thermal envelope?
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#18I’d like to see a “benchmark” about M1’s support for real world dev setup (docker, brew, libraries and so on). And when can we expect the full support
Ideally, Docker et al will be ready by the time the MacBook Pros come out. Here is hoping.
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#19Shouldn't Ryzen 4000 be a better comparison?
In the article: > You may wonder why I used 3900X instead of Ryzen 5000-series CPUs: Because I don't have it.
Ryzen 4000 series (which is for laptops) is relatively easy to get, but I don't fault the author for not buying a laptop specifically for this benchmark. The 3900x still pulls more power and is on the same technology as the 4900HS/4900H so it's definitely not a bad-faith comparison.
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#20Can't wait to see the Mac Pro. The argument is over for best laptop processor. I want to see if Apple is as eager to beat the competition in the Workstation/HPC space as they were in the mobile/laptop. I think they are, Srouji looks like he's got a knife in his teeth and can't wait to claim fastest personal computer ever period. But we'll have to see, it's a tiny, tiny market to justify the effort.
> I want to see if Apple is as eager to beat the competition in the HPC space
Doesn't HPC use PPC or something?
I could see them delivering on Desktop, not sure about HPC though. There's only one Fortran compiler for M1!