Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development

Shouldn't Ryzen 4000 be a better comparison?

Agree, but comparing a desktop class processor that was released 1.5yrs ago that at minimum was taking 100W or more to compute is still very eye-opening in seeing how far processor technology has come in such a short time.

Ryzen 4000 is a mobile processor. Ryzen 5000 would likely fare better, but it is hard to acquire right now. Even then, it will be a process node behind the M1 (TSMC 7nm vs 5nm) so I suspect the battle for the fastest core will be heating up into next year.

edit: ah, I suppose the M1 is also a mobile processor. Having one myself (in the form of a Mac Mini,) it’s easy to forget...

I’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

> Just Buy M1 if you'd like to have a low-power, long-lasting, quiet, and performant dev machine.

If your development environment/tooling/workflow does not gain any real advantage from more CPU cores. Also your data must fit in the 16GB of RAM as offloading any workload to disk will kill the performance and you cannot add more.

The M1 has excellent single core performance so any task that is mainly single threaded will do really well on it.