Impressive results from Apple, and another well-deserved kick in the teeth for Intel after years of stagnation. The coming decade is going to finally see some interesting developments in the CPU market again.
2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
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#12Is it safe to assume that future ASi CPUs for desktops will have just Firestorm cores and no Icestorm, which should further increase MT performance?
I know Apple was trying to get to market quickly, but I fail to understand why we need Icestorm cores in a non-mobile CPU, especially with this already (really) low TDP.
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#13Dave2D found the air to be on par with the Pro, at least for tasks that took under ~8.5 minutes. It only really throttled after that point, according to him.
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#14Someone posted these results on Reddit earlier: https://www.reddit.com/r/macgaming/comments/jvrck7/m1_macboo... As far as I know, DotA 2 is running on Rosetta.
Those are some significant improvements. I'm actually really tempted to get a Macbook Air now versus my current plans to build a cheap gaming rig.
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#15From the article's conclusion... "The M1 undisputedly outperforms the core performance of everything Intel has to offer, and battles it with AMD’s new Zen3, winning some, losing some. And in the mobile space in particular, there doesn’t seem to be an equivalent in either ST or MT performance – at least within the same power budgets." This is the first in-depth review validating all the hype. Assuming the user experie…
I can't find that quote or even the words "undisputedly" or "Zen3" in the article. Was it changed or, if it wasn't, can you give me a pointer, please?
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#16Another source: https://wccftech.com/intel-and-amd-x86-mobility-cpus-destroy...
At least in multicore, all of the Ryzen CPUs beat the M1.
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#17Am I reading this right? Is the new mac mini competing with a Ryzen 5950X? The whole mac mini costs the price of that processor alone. This is insane.
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#18I don't think there is enough test yet, why is it only Cinebench and Geekbench? Show us real test with ffmpeg, gcc etc ...
They state in the article:
> As we’ve had very little time with the Mac mini, and the fact that this not only is a macOS system, but a new Arm64-based macOS system, our usual benchmark choices that we tend to use aren’t really available to us.
I think most other benchmarks weren't compiled for MacOS on ARM yet.
Re: 2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Test
#19From the article's conclusion... "The M1 undisputedly outperforms the core performance of everything Intel has to offer, and battles it with AMD’s new Zen3, winning some, losing some. And in the mobile space in particular, there doesn’t seem to be an equivalent in either ST or MT performance – at least within the same power budgets." This is the first in-depth review validating all the hype. Assuming the user experie…
I can't find that quote or even the words "undisputedly" or "Zen3" in the article. Was it changed or, if it wasn't, can you give me a pointer, please?
It's on page 7
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#20For very long time, the mac mini is attractive again with this new M1 performance. I feel like my Ryzen 2 sff build is old even though it's just less than 1 year.