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I am somewhat skeptical about total performance claims as many notebook manufacturers have been moving to ARM for efficiency and not total performance. Current

I am somewhat skeptical about total performance claims as many notebook manufacturers have been moving to ARM for efficiency and not total performance. Current top of the line for notebooks would be the Qualcomm 8cx (ARM, 7? Watts) and AMD 4800U (x86-64, 15 Watts TDP) from quick search around. Would be interesting to see independent reviewers benchmarking those 2 in comparison to Apple's first in-house processor. Here are some spec comparisons for the time being: - https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-apple_m1-1804-vs-amd_ryzen_7_4800u-1142 https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-apple_m1-1804-vs-a... - https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-apple_m1-1804-vs-qualcomm_snapdragon_8cx-1664 https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-apple_m1-1804-vs-q...

pmart123 6y ago
Perhaps it is due to less data copying and configuring the right processor for the job in Apple's benchmarks? Most CPU benchmarks wouldn't be testing the performance characteristics if the matrix heavy computations were done by the GPU, etc.?
- fabianhjr 6y ago
  Both the Qualcomm 8cx and AMD Ryzen 4800U have integrated graphics.
anentropic 6y ago
this has a pretty good analysis https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de... This is far from Apple's first in-house processor, and they were already way ahead of other ARM chips before the M1