Well, it'd be a surprise if the latest chip weren't the fastest. Intel is finding this out the hard way right now.
Who's Intel?
Did you mean "whose"?
Mac Mini with M4 Pro is the fastest Mac ever benchmarked
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Re: Mac Mini with M4 Pro is the fastest Mac ever benchmarked
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Geekbench 5 and earlier constructed the multi-core test as essentially running N independent copies of the single-core test. This effectively pretends that every subtest is embarrassingly parallel. Geekbench 6 switched to having the multi-core test actually operate like real multi-threaded software: a fixed-size problem is broken up to be divided among available cores, with a non-zero amount of coordination between t…
But that’s a very specific thing to adjust a benchmark for, what if I want to host 50 VMs on one server for example? Then the 100 core server would be much better than the 16 core server, even though it has a lower benchmark value.
It's not a "very specific" thing to adjust a benchmark for. It's the default case for practically all consumer workloads, and Geekbench is a consumer-focused benchmark.
Re: Mac Mini with M4 Pro is the fastest Mac ever benchmarked
#53Seems that if you are into photography you still have to wait until M4 Max based Studio is out and wait out Mac Mini Pro. 2x graphics performance will accelerate many GPU-based tasks in tools like Topaz Photo AI, Lightroom and Photoshop, Luminar, etc.
Topaz I can understand, but are you really struggling with performance in lightroom and photoshop?
I have a 50MP camera and I don’t have issues with older hardware
Actually, I don’t know how like an M3 pro or better compares with a ryzen 5600 and rtx 3060, I assume much better cpu performanc and similar GPU performance?
Re: Mac Mini with M4 Pro is the fastest Mac ever benchmarked
#54Well, it'd be a surprise if the latest chip weren't the fastest. Intel is finding this out the hard way right now.
Aren't the latest Intels slightly slower for a massive drop in power consumption?
Re: Mac Mini with M4 Pro is the fastest Mac ever benchmarked
#55Well, it'd be a surprise if the latest chip weren't the fastest. Intel is finding this out the hard way right now.
Aren't the latest Intels slightly slower for a massive drop in power consumption?
On laptops, yes, but I was referring to their latest desktop chips which are actually worse in performance than the previous generation, somehow.
Re: Mac Mini with M4 Pro is the fastest Mac ever benchmarked
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm still running an Intel-based MacBook Pro from 2019, and it's trucking along just fine. It's not as fast as the M* chips, obviously, but it's still perfectly serviceable for software development. I'm tempted by the new Pro, but I don't consider it a necessity. If I picked up a new Mini or MacBook today, I'm reasonably confident it, too, would last me five years or more.
I switched from the same model three months ago. It’s night and day. I used to have my fan spinning all day; with the new one, I only heard it once since buying it, even in perfect silence. Things that used to slow down, now run in parallel. The battery keeps up with more than a full work day programming, comfortably.
It’s a big difference, but the battery of a new 2019 MacBook also got close to a work day. The M series should last a bit longer, but after 5 years it’s a gamble with batteries…