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And yet here we have the M1 MacBook Air apparently beating the M1 MacBook pro, by a large margin.
by AshamedCaptain 6y ago
And yet here we have the M1 MacBook Air apparently beating the M1 MacBook pro, by a large margin.
- GeekyBear 6y agoThe silicon lottery is still a thing. I imagine they will eventually have enough chips to start binning for different performance levels like AMD and Intel do.
- AshamedCaptain 6y agoThey are already binning. The air is supposed to be less powerful, with cheaper variants even having one core less. The benchmark is just ... that accurate.
- GeekyBear 6y agoThey are binning for functional GPU cores and allow chips with only 7 functional GPU cores instead of 8 to go into the lower priced Air. They are not binning for how high the cores will clock, which is just how business is done with Intel and AMD.
- renaudg 6y agoBased on a sample size of 1 or 2, most likely. It could be due to something as stupid as Spotlight running in the background on the MBP but not the Air.
- AgloeDreams 6y agoIt's thought that the MBP score is due to it being ran possibly during indexing on setup. The score difference is too big, it's a single sample, and the pro still fries it at single core.