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Intel Downplays Apple's M1 Chip With 'Carefully Crafted' Benchmarks

We all know that competition is good for innovation and the consumer, and with Apple getting into the game, all of a sudden everyone is scrambling to get out of their complacency lounge chairs.
Consumers are already the big winners thanks to Apple. Whether you prefer Windows, Android, Intel, Qualcomm or a Mac.
 
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Graphs do not lie! Intel 11th Generation Core i7 processor is almost double the computational performance of the Apple M1 processor.
 
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I don’t understand why Intel had to include GPU and Gaming compared to the M1 when MacOS and Macs in general are not very used much for gaming per se and PC’s are far superior in this department so for Intel to blab about how they are better when Intel Processors and Windows as well defeat MacOS and Macs when it comes to platform as system requirements for games a lot of the time only mention Windows OS but not much say MacOS or Mac, and Mac Games for some titles get released some time after PC. Yes there’s Apple Arcade for Mac but that is inferior to General PC Gaming

I think Intel’s use of that as a cheap shot against Apple is disgusting, obviously Apple cares little about gaming something which is different to PC’s. Your dominance is dying and I can’t wait, thankfully King Apple did a very smart thing and bought Intels Modem Business before the M1 revealing proving little by little the fall of Intel in more than one division. Combined with AMD Intel is in double Trouble, so Prepare for Trouble Intel, little by little I hope they slip further, even if they are a decent company in general you can tell that they are losing grip especially against the King’s Apple themselves
 
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MacRumors said:
"Today's M1 processor is a low-end chip for low-end systems, so Intel only has a small window to compare itself favorably to these systems before higher-end Apple silicon Macs ship and make its job that much harder."
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Yeah to be fair they are on similarly price range. Sometimes Intel is even cheaper. Me personally don't see the "high end or low end" title, but more on performance vs price ratio.

But still, as an Apple user, gonna replace my intel 2020 MBP with next gen 2021 MBP 😅
 
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Well as an Apple user since 1994, I've bought a ridiculous amount of Macs....
My base model M1 13" MacBook Pro is the most impressive Mac and BEST bang for the buck of ANY Mac I have ever purchased, and that includes two different Mac Pros that I bought in the past.

I can't even BEGIN to imagine what a MX Mac Pro is gonna do.... Intel execs would be smart to go ahead and stock up on some anxiety meds.
 
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Mr.Brossard said:
Like Apple did to Intel, during the MHz Myth and other infamous keynotes, promoting PPC over Pentium?
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PPC was better. The actual fiasco was that Intel/x86 CPUs were NOT as fast as advertised and not as fast as PC fans hoped, UNLESS you used highly-optimised-for-Intel compilers (even more than GCC) that used SSE2, while PowerPC was not even allowed AltiVec. And it was the same people that had the nerve for years to claim that Photoshop filters benchmarks were biased in favour of Apple because of vector optimisation, talk about irony.

Intel was not new in that game. Using their loyal dogs in the offline and the newborn Web media, they bullied AMD for years with MMX vs 3DNow! in the 90s (AMD K6 was better than given credit) until they got destroyed by K7=Athlon at the dawn of the century. They had to go back to the drawing board with SSE2 and they had to go back to the marketing board, forcing Intel CPUs to manufacturers (not just Dell), software=game developers, and IT decision makers even harder, and just paying reviewers on the Web to promote their stuff to the fanboys. They were not going to let Apple have it.
 
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I would be more inclined to pay attention to Intel's benchmarks if they hadn't been accused of pessimizing AMD's performance on so many occasions, particularly in their math libraries and compiler passes.
 
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I can say I tested an M1 Mini (16 GB RAM) versus a pretty high spec 2019 16" (i9 2.4 Ghz, 32 MB RAM, 5500M 8GB Video) in Lightwave 2020 and the Mini trounced it 3 minutes to 25 minutes in a test render.

The same test in LW 2019 they both ran about 25 minutes, but the i9 was faster.

Other than that, well I sold the MacBook.
I use Affinity
Apple Photos
Lumiar
FCP X
Motion
Capture 1
Logic Pro
Lightwave
Modo
I keep promising myself to try more with Blender.
Apple Work Apps (no office on my Mac at this time).

I am quite okay, though there are a few apps or plugins for apps I still need to see updated.

Sorry Intel. Apple won this round. Feel free to amaze us all, You have made some outstanding CPUs over the years, but you haven't been threatened enough lately, apparently, despite AMD releasing at least comparable hardware.

Maybe it was just the optics of the Apple switch. Let's see Intel of the early 90s again. You know, when you last released a processor on time. Competition is only good for all of us.
 
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I do t know about you guys but personally I get really tired of this benchmark malarkey. More often than not the results are manufactured or the numbers not especially representative.
I remember a bunch of android phones (I think HTC and Samsung but not certain) overclocked the cpu by 100hz or so to achieve the benchmark results, seems every company out there, Apple included just pick n choose the best looking ones for the argument they want to make. It mostly seems like a load of bollocks
 
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antiprotest said:
This is bad strategy. Instead of doing this, which invites backlash and reeks of desperation, Intel should say something like they are excited by the competition and promise people that they have great things coming up and that fans won't be disappointed. Something like that.
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This is exactly what they have been saying. Unfortunately apple fanboys have been busy trying to figure out which software really works without glitches on M1.
 
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Dcgod said:
I sold my 2019 8 core Mac Pro and I can honestly say my M1 Mac Mini is faster than that $7000 machine. I’ll without a doubt be going straight Apple silicon from now on out.
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M1 completely wipe the floor all Intel lineup with their powerful single core processing power, but still haven't reach prowesses in multithreaded task, tons of RAM, GPU power and expandability to compete with.


If you only using Apple apps, doesn't utilize PCIe cards and doesn't have bunch of gear connected on your Macs why you buy Mac Pro in first place ?
 
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Yeah... pretty much everything you do in Adobe apps between the time you launch the app until the time you quit it.
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Well, not everything. Some things are just as fast on both.

And the whole idea to even compare Excel based on performance on both platforms is ludicrous as Excel for Windows is more like Excel Pro. There are so many things Microsoft stopped supporting in the Mac version generations ago. Excel for Mac is there for light work.

If you are in finance you use a Windows machine for Excel. Period. But what’s funny is that for security reasons, a friend at Goldman doesn’t bring a laptop on trips. He brings an iPad Pro and remotes in to his office Windows machine that is running his Excel instance.
 
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It is something so simple as a company picking where it’s good at and showcasing that. It isn’t petty, it isn’t sad, bad, whatever. It is just a company finding how and where it’s good at versus competition and showcasing that.

Also, why is MacRumors using PCWorld's words in their headline, no less?
 
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Until they make a better product or sell them for lower than it costs Apple to make them I don’t see them winning this race.
y if intel made a cpu with graphics performance so good you don’t need a graphics card, then they’ll have something to brag about. Even though it will run hot and drain battery fast and cost too much. They are in trouble.
 
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They are trying to convince their OTHER OEM customers not to jump to ARM, too.
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except there is no source yet for Arm chips, other than maybe QCOM (and their chip didn't fare well in the Surface with Windows Arm), plus there is no Windows for Arm, yet ... clearly that is something that CAN happen and maybe will.
Intel just released their EVO spec a few months ago so they need to "demonstrate" its "superiority" ... its marketing gimmick right now
 
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except there is no source yet for Arm chips, other than maybe QCOM (and their chip didn't fare well in the Surface with Windows Arm), plus there is no Windows for Arm, yet ... clearly that is something that CAN happen and maybe will.
Intel just released their EVO spec a few months ago so they need to "demonstrate" its "superiority" ... its marketing gimmick right now
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There is Windows for ARM, but the current generation of Qualcomm chips doesn't compete well with x86.
 
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