I am not so much impressed by the MIPS/W, this is a 5 nm process. But the actual speed for $ is very impressive.
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Apple Silicon M1 Compiles Code as Fast as 2019 Mac Pro and With Minimal Battery Life Impact
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I think it's time for this one again.
How I feel about the new Air:
How I feel about the new Air:
Can’t wait for the M1 Xserve boxes 
Oh wait...
Oh wait... I wonder what kind of throttling is occurring. Is the chip being clocked down, or is it just clocked slower overall? ie: was it at 100% CPU frequency for 25 minutes, or was it at 100% for 20 minutes and 70% for the last five?
I suspect that it's the former. Can't wait to get my hands on one so it can sit there and wait for me to type!
I suspect that it's the former. Can't wait to get my hands on one so it can sit there and wait for me to type!
The alternate is a 1.2-1.6GHz design like Intel cripples into their 11th gen ultrabooks. Chips barely faster than my 3rd gen i7 in multicore. Sure, they turboboost a single core, but multicore isn’t boosted due to poor thermal performance, so multicore is running at 50% or less of the turboboost speed.
Apple’s approach is to give you the full chip and full speed efficiency cores for light uses, full speed multi-cores for most other uses, and too slow the full cores modestly (25%) under the heaviest sustained loads for the rare occasions you push it that hard on an ultrabook.
This is the benchmark Apple should have used to begin with. That is incredibly impressive and makes me go from wanting an m1 air to needing an m1 pro for work.
Especially interesting in the anandtech review where the M1 is faster than the new AMD 5950x in some areas.
Kudos especially to Johny Srouji and teams from doing way above great for this M1. I can't imagine how ecstatic they are hearing all of these glowing reviews. 👏
I suspect the air was at 100% (3.2G) for the first 4-5 minutes and then 75% (2.4G) for the rest. The 2.4GHz was the permanently throttled speed of the developer rig. There’s a reason for that, I would assume, and it’s that Apple hadn’t turned on the (hadn’t finished) the variable speed logic yet, and wanted to give stable rigs to developers.
The MBP may have been throttled right at the end, or the mini may have other internal benefits that allows it to be just a tad faster.
Does web development with NodeJS and Webpack use Rosetta emulation or would it run native? Those are some impressive single-core numbers for web developers.
I’m genuinely curious to know why they have not introduced a 16” version of this. Or let alone a timeline for an iMac version of this. I mean it certainly seems like a very viable alternative. Or maybe there is some catch. Or do they plan to just cause all of us to collectively **** our pants when they do bring out the new Pro-line M1s with double the performance over anything current at the time?
For certain apps yes. But those apps would be things you use as a creator or professional developer or a gamer. Outside of that the machines seems more than capable for 99.9% of workloads.
Honestly, I think they were so confident (rightfully so) with their offering that they’re opting for as close to a genuine word-of-mouth marketing strategy as a massive corporation can do.
WWDC is going to be *ABSURD* this year....
Not if you're a Mac, apparently: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...ducts-stolen-on-m1-highway-in-the-uk.2269119/
I know right? We're caught in a landslide, no escape from reality...
I think it's too soon to say. 8GB of unified memory is not the same as an 8GB ram dim. It could be the equivalent of 16 GB as we know it in an intel machine. IOS devices perform great and they have the most sucktastic ram numbers out there.
Some of these earlier reviews (Mac World had a pretty good one) are suggesting that it feels like its way but they don't have supporting data yet. In the Power PC days, less hz in the processor and less ram was faster and more efficient than Intel Counterparts.
I'm impatiently awaiting UPS to arrive.... and I have a massive and ugly Excel file that 16GB of ram on an i7 machine chokes on. If the M1 machine with
Please report back on that excel file when you can.
Impressive I'm very curious how the more high-end Macs wil perform!