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Intel Downplays Apple's M1 Chip With 'Carefully Crafted' Benchmarks
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This comparison just makes Apple's first laptop ARM chip even more impressive.
It’s difficult to know where to start in tearing those “results” to shreds.
Maybe at the bit where they used x86_64 versions of Lightroom and Photoshop on the M1. 🙄
It’s incredibly desperate. They need to figure out their performance and power issues instead of coming up with meaningless comparisons.
They’ve done it before, but for the last few years they have really struggled to make any meaningful progress - AMD has overtaken them, and so has Apple. That has got to hurt.
Maybe at the bit where they used x86_64 versions of Lightroom and Photoshop on the M1. 🙄
It’s incredibly desperate. They need to figure out their performance and power issues instead of coming up with meaningless comparisons.
They’ve done it before, but for the last few years they have really struggled to make any meaningful progress - AMD has overtaken them, and so has Apple. That has got to hurt.
Absolutely love Jason Snell's assessment lol. I really do hope that Intel is able to turn things around, but this was a very bad decision.
I'm an x86 fan. But come on Intel, not like this. It's okay to lose. Just make sure Alder Lake rocks... Tiger lake is cool, but m1 has you beat in terms of performance and certainly in terms of efficiency. Although I will say that Tiger Lake is currently only 4 cores... when 8-core Tiger Lake drops, it will likely outperform M1.
Intel does win on better connectivity options with its thunderbolt4 tech... can connect to two 4k monitors out of the box, unlike the m1. And windows does support EGPUs unlike macos with the m1.
But m1 consumes much less power for the performance. And is seriously impressive. So much so that the MacBook air doesn't even need a fan. Show me a high performance Intel-based mobile machine without a fan machine that competes with the Air in terms of performance...
Just admit defeat and innovate. Don't delude yourself.
Intel does win on better connectivity options with its thunderbolt4 tech... can connect to two 4k monitors out of the box, unlike the m1. And windows does support EGPUs unlike macos with the m1.
But m1 consumes much less power for the performance. And is seriously impressive. So much so that the MacBook air doesn't even need a fan. Show me a high performance Intel-based mobile machine without a fan machine that competes with the Air in terms of performance...
Just admit defeat and innovate. Don't delude yourself.
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This... this is so far beyond cherrypicking I don't think there's even a name for it...
This is laughable, at best...
But Chipzilla was down before, and it always bounced back with a vengeance. Don't count them out.
But Chipzilla was down before, and it always bounced back with a vengeance. Don't count them out.
So a intel CPU that costs over $400 is compared to the low end M1
PC’s using this appear way more expensive than the Apple M1’s
PC’s using this appear way more expensive than the Apple M1’s
Carefully crafted indeed.
Netflix would stream HDR (and up to 4K) content in Mac OS Safari on an M1, while it'd max out at 720p SDR in Windows Chrome...
Netflix would stream HDR (and up to 4K) content in Mac OS Safari on an M1, while it'd max out at 720p SDR in Windows Chrome...
Who is Intel? That name rings a bell but, I can't hear the bell because I have Silicon in my ears.
It would have a been a real world test comparing it against what the M1 ACTUALLY replaces right now, especially in the MBA.
Where's those i5 benchmarks, Intel?
Where's those i5 benchmarks, Intel?
If only Intel were actually trying to be funny. Pity it'll be quite a number of years until they release decent product and realise what their A-game actually is.
Of cause Apple's language is cherry picked as well. That's the Tim Cook influence there.
However in practice the M1 is really as good as everyone says it is. The same can't be said for much of the Intel line.
Looks like Apple can roll out this ad again, with a bit of updating perhaps...
M1 whooped everyone in it's weight class so people are trying to see which in the heavier weight classes it can beat. Intel is doing the same. A lightweight can't beat the beat heavyweight, but it's not designed to. Intel don't care, they will advertise the fact that something can beat the M1. Even in that something is a power hungry CPU in a totally different category of chip.
How is it that the Acer Swift 5 weighs 2.2 lb, has a 14" display, and has comparable battery life to the MBA?
Only one Intel device left in my household now, and that will be gone in 6 months.
I'm a Mac and Windows kind of guy, so this is a really interesting predicament for someone like me: I want to see what the full potential of Silicon will be, which is making me hold back on upgrading both my old Mac and my old Intel-powered PC
Intel is the industry leader in shady benchmark slides.
I'm surprised Intel didn't include in their features "will literally burn your junk." Because they do, they get so hot. I have to shift my laptop forward periodically, and this is for basic usage, not rendering.
My gut tells me that when Apple releases the redesigned MacBook Pros, with high-end chips and new enclosures designed from the ground up for thermal performance (allowing Apple to clock up), Intel is going to be looking pretty lame.
I find this response from Intel very desperate. They are in a very weak position now -- more HPC projects are going to AMD, NVIDIA is buying Arm (or attempting to), more compute is going to GPU and they are behind there too, and they are 18+ months behind on their own chips. I hope this is more a sign of the outgoing energy than the incoming, because they're going to need more than trash-talk at this point. And everybody who tracks CPUs and compute technology knows it.
My gut tells me that when Apple releases the redesigned MacBook Pros, with high-end chips and new enclosures designed from the ground up for thermal performance (allowing Apple to clock up), Intel is going to be looking pretty lame.
I find this response from Intel very desperate. They are in a very weak position now -- more HPC projects are going to AMD, NVIDIA is buying Arm (or attempting to), more compute is going to GPU and they are behind there too, and they are 18+ months behind on their own chips. I hope this is more a sign of the outgoing energy than the incoming, because they're going to need more than trash-talk at this point. And everybody who tracks CPUs and compute technology knows it.
They tried pulling the same crap with AMD regarding the performance of their Ryzen processors to "prove" that AMD weren't really wiping the floor with them after all.
Nobody bought that one either.
Nobody bought that one either.
They were using a 1.5kw chiller under the desk