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

Post by mzl » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 9:19 AM UTC

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> The M1 chip, which belongs to a MacBook Air with 8GB RAM, features a single-core score of 1687 and a multi-core score of 7433. According to the benchmark, the M1 has a 3.2GHz base frequency. > The Mac mini with M1 chip that was benchmarked earned a single-core score of 1682 and a multi-core score of 7067. > Update: There's also a benchmark for the 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 chip and 16GB RAM that has a single-core…

The A14 Air just came out and has a brand new CPU. The Pros have much fancier displays, lower pen latency, etc. Subjectively, in most typical use, the Pros already feel like they have more available cycles than iOS apps have got around to soaking up.

Post by mxxx » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 9:21 AM UTC

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Nothing they did this week made it more unrepairable that it already was. Newest Macbooks already had CPUs and memory soldered in to the motherboard for quite some time. And this doesn't make them unrepairable because most of the motherboard issues don't come from a faulty CPU or memory, but from corrosion/other kind of damage on the smaller discrete elements like resistors, capacitors or smaller chips, which can eas…

> but there are a lot of repair shops that can repair even the newest Macbooks with high success rate. That is my point. Now EVERYTHIN is in the M1 chip. Nobody will be able to fix it, not even Apple.

Post by Tepix » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 9:23 AM UTC

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Laptop Macs of late are known for heavy throttling due to inadequate cooling, which cannot have been unnoticed in simulations

I have the 16” MacBook Pro. It doesn’t throttle and will happily run at max boost for tens of minutes.

Post by mxxx » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 9:24 AM UTC

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I've been holding onto my late 2013 15" MacBook Pro for almost 7 years now and it's wild to see it get absolutely out-spec'd by the MacBook Air. It's been a long time, but I've always convinced myself that I'm not missing out on that big of a processor improvement. I do a lot of audio work with it, but even then it doesn't always feel like a slow experience.

That MacBook has to be one of the best computers Apple has ever created. Mine has lasted this long with non-stop daily usage for years and travel around different countries.

Post by vbezhenar » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 9:25 AM UTC

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Not exactly. You can check the clock speeds: https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/4620493.gb5 Up to 5050MHz is stock behavior for the 5950X and it's using standard DDR4 3200 memory.

Yet it still makes it very clear: a properly implemented ARM core can easily bury an X86 of equivalent size because of inherent advantage of not having to pay interest on 40 years of technical debt in the ISA.