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Re: Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

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Post by smoldesu »

mhh__ wrote: post #39
bhouston wrote: post #30

Where is the graphics test? The M1 Max versus an NVIDIA 3080 or similar?

I'm waiting to be corrected by someone who knows GPU architecture better than me but as far as I can tell the synthetic benchmarks can trade blows with a 3070 or 80 (mobile), but the actual gaming performance isn't going to be as rosy. Also recall that very few games needing that performance actually work on MacOS

The gaming performance will be CPU-bottlenecked. Without proper Wine/DXVK support, they have to settle for interpreted HLE or dynamic recompilation, neither of which are very feasible on modern CPUs, much less ARM chips.

Re: Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

louwrentius wrote: post #50

The single core performance is still the same as the M1, so frankly, for a laptop that's awesome, but I wish single core performance could hit the AMD Ryzen scores.

Depends what benchmark you ask. According to Passmark, the M1 is the best single core CPU no question.

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Post by moreira »

mrtksn wrote: post #45
e0m wrote: post #16

Wow does much better than Geekbench's prior top processor ( https://browser.geekbench.com/processor-benchmarks ) the Intel Core i9-11900K ( https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/intel-core-i9-11900... ). 10,997 for Intel i9 vs 12,693 for M1 Max

The single core is second to Intel's best but the multicore is well below in the scale, comparable to Intel Xeon W-2191B or Intel Core i9-10920X, which are 18 and 12 core beasts with TDP of up to 165W. Which means, at least for Geekbench, Apple M1 Max has a power comparable to a very powerful desktop workstation. But if you need the absolute best of the best on multicore you can get double the performance with AMD Ry…

Interestingly, the M1 Max is only a 10 core (of which only 8 are high performance). I wonder what it will look like when it’s a 20-core, or even a 64-core like the Threadripper. Imagine a 64-core M1 on an iMac or Mac Pro.

We’re in for some fun times.

Re: Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

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Post by YetAnotherNick »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #37
systemvoltage wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Per core performance is the most interesting metric. Edit: for relative comparison between CPUs, per core metric is the most interesting unless you also account for heat, price and many other factors. Comparing a 56-core CPU with 10-core M1 is a meaningless comparison.

Not when building large software projects.

By that logic you could build an array of mac mini if you don't care about price/heat.

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Post by mhh__ »

gigatexal wrote: post #54
mhh__ wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't check for you due to hug but the 12900K was clocking in at about 1900 ST IIRC Edit: Leaving this up so I can be corrected, don't think I have the right figure.

If true I’d be interested to see what that is in points per watt.

The points per watt is probably going to be crap but equally I don't care all that much.

One thing as well is that there are always headlines complaining about power usage, but the figures are nearly always from extreme stress tests which basically fully saturate the execution units.

Geekbench is slightly different to those stresses so not sure.

Re: Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

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Post by thebean11 »

diebeforei485 wrote: post #56

I'm in the situation where I really want to pre-order a 14", but I have no idea if going with the base model would be a mistake. Would upgrading to 32GB RAM make Xcode faster? Or would it be a waste of $400?

16GB of RAM seems so low in 2021. OTOH, hard drives are so fast on these things that maybe 16 is good enough with the SSD as overflow.

I ended up shelling out the extra $400 for 32GB, but didn't feel great about it!

Re: Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

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Post by williamtwild »

Thaxll wrote: post #52
bhouston wrote: post #30

Where is the graphics test? The M1 Max versus an NVIDIA 3080 or similar?

It's probably bad, the M1 could not get 60fps on WoW so ... When I see Apple comparison I would take that with a grain of salts because the M1 is not able to run any modern game at decent fps.

"the M1 is not able to run any modern game at decent fps."

Do you have first hand experience with this? I do . We play WoW on MacBook air M1 and it runs fantastic . Better than my intel MacBook Pro from 2019

Re: Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

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Post by spacedcowboy »

moreira wrote: post #63
mrtksn wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The single core is second to Intel's best but the multicore is well below in the scale, comparable to Intel Xeon W-2191B or Intel Core i9-10920X, which are 18 and 12 core beasts with TDP of up to 165W. Which means, at least for Geekbench, Apple M1 Max has a power comparable to a very powerful desktop workstation. But if you need the absolute best of the best on multicore you can get double the performance with AMD Ry…

Interestingly, the M1 Max is only a 10 core (of which only 8 are high performance). I wonder what it will look like when it’s a 20-core, or even a 64-core like the Threadripper. Imagine a 64-core M1 on an iMac or Mac Pro. We’re in for some fun times.

John Siracusa - no the chart isn't real, but maybe qualify that with "yet"...

https://twitter.com/siracusa/status/1450202454067400711

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