They lost me at the battery life 😂😂😂
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Intel Downplays Apple's M1 Chip With 'Carefully Crafted' Benchmarks
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I’m replacing my last intel machine today.
AMD Ryzen though, it’s home NAS/VM box.
ahh. Other than the MBA. But waiting for next gen M processor for that. 👌
Apple doesn’t sell its processors to third parties, and so NEVER publishes much in the way of benchmark results. Instead they just talk about specific work that is done faster on their new product. They let the press and the internet do the benchmarks and reporting.
Huh? At the time, PPC was actually faster.
The choice of office tasks was interesting as they all highlight a single threaded complex instruction, which is where intel shines. Where the operations can be pipelined and are simpler Apple’s RISC M1 architecture is better. And that is the 95% case. I’m a regular excel user and looked at those functions and I don’t think I’ve ever used them.
There is one more thing that wasn’t compared. The price of the M1 vs. the price of that i7. I’ll guarantee the i7 is far more expensive a chip.
There is one more thing that wasn’t compared. The price of the M1 vs. the price of that i7. I’ll guarantee the i7 is far more expensive a chip.
The “ truth “ is Apple is better than you Intel..instead wasting your time claim this and that shouldn’t you Intel spend that precious time working trying to beat Apple Silicon M1..as I told my competitors in my fantasy sports league “ don’t get mad, get motivate “.
I thought the number one marketing rule is that if you are the market leader you never mention your competition by name. Reeks of desperation.
This.
I read a bit of anandtechs review of the technology demo for this i7.
It can TurboBoost a single core up to nearly 5GHz. It will draw a lot of power doing it. And we don’t know if Intel is comparing a 28w implementation or a 12w or a 15w. Unless intel says in the article?
So there is no doubt this chip can likely do those certain things very well. But the question is: at what cost? Money, power, battery, cooling, noise, case design...
If they had to try this hard just to even somewhat compete with the worst M processor Apple will ever make, that tells you something about how confident Intel is at the moment.
I’d like to see this same test done with Intels low level chips... Let’s not forget the M1 is Apples chip for the low end (I5 equivalent). These benchmarks are comparing the M1 to an I7. Not a very apples to apples comparison.
Remember when everyone was on Apple's back for releasing vague charts that meant nothing? Well, apparently you can also release very detailed charts that mean nothing as well.
Intel executives are probably holding their testing engineers at gun point to write this.
Wink twice if you need help.
Wink twice if you need help.
They're being delusional. If they don't change attitude and soon - like a couple months - they'll be done for good.
M1 is already amazing, and we can already imagine what future gens will be like.
M1 is already amazing, and we can already imagine what future gens will be like.
Lol. i7 processors are 13” high end & 15” MacBook Pro level. The M1 macs are Apple’s lowest end computers.
When I read those charts, I read “Apple’s low-end chips compete with our mid to high end models.”
When I read those charts, I read “Apple’s low-end chips compete with our mid to high end models.”
Intel is so salty they lost Apple's business and Apple is making them look stupid. 😁
I bet they’ll compare Apple 15” MacBook Pro chips with their highest end i9 processors.
One bets against Apple to their own detriment.
BUT Intel will your processors run cool and not cause fans to blow and not burn up legs like the M1. You didn't mention that. 😂
Just curious, what would be the reason to be fan of x86? Odd to hear someone be a fan of the Intel architecture. 🤷♂️