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I still have a hard time believing those benchmarks. Are they really comparing the same things - just compiled for different architecture? Or is there more behi
by muro 7y ago
I still have a hard time believing those benchmarks. Are they really comparing the same things - just compiled for different architecture? Or is there more behind it - one is a "mobile" benchmark, the other something else?
- boudin 7y agoI'm with you. Benchmarks should always be looked at with extra-care. The environment of a tablet is quite different, and there's not much things that are benchmarked. Not saying that those cpus aren't great, but benchmarking those in the exact same conditions than an AMD or Intel CPU on a laptop, desktop or server might give some results that are more contrasted.
- fluffything 7y ago> Are they really comparing the same things - just compiled for different architecture? IIRC they were just Geekbench 4 and 5, which are standard benchmark suites for the MacOs and iOS ecosystems, and IIRC only the subsets of the benchmark suite that ran on both the Macbook Air and the iPad Pro where compared. The only thing that I know about Geekbench is that it benchmarks application performance, e.g., by running an application and performing a task (e.g. Cinema, Adobe, etc.). I don't know if they use the same applications and the same tasks on every OS/arch combination. If they don't, the scores cannot be compared, and being able to compare the scores is the only purpose of these tools... so I hope so (the article I read seemed ok, so I had no reason to suspect). Does anybody know for sure?
- enaaem 7y agoThey don't benchmark apps, but test on a set of standard workloads and algorithms. https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench5-cpu-workloads.pdf https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench5-cpu-workloads.pdf