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Also, how much of the Intel performance was kneecapped by Apple's insufficient cooling? On a laptop with the same Intel chip, but with a proper cooling system t

Also, how much of the Intel performance was kneecapped by Apple's insufficient cooling? On a laptop with the same Intel chip, but with a proper cooling system that doesn't peg the CPU to 100C instantly, I bet a lot of the performance gap would vanish. Of course that doesn't take away the M1's superiority, just that the performance measurement is meaningless when the Intel CPU is constantly throttling at 100C.

vonseel 6y ago
That's a great question. I've got a hackmac with an i9-9900k that needs some optimizing. It was hitting 100C frequently until I changed some overclock settings, that's been remediated but I still haven't had a chance to optimize it. It appears most of the tools for measuring OC settings and benchmarking are PC-only, so that requires throwing up a Windows install alongside Mac OS - which I've done. Dual-booting required disconnecting all other hard-drives to install Windows onto a new drive. Which is a ridiculous requirement and not even related to Mac or hackintoshing, but to the Windows installers inability to install in the presence of any drives with bootable EFI partitions – I think. Off topic, but yeah, buy real Macs unless you have a lot of time to devote to fixing problems. Most of the time it's flawless. Upgrading and special cases are fun. I'd really like to see how the M1 compares to my current setup in my real world use.
coldtea 6y ago
>On a laptop with the same Intel chip, but with a proper cooling system that doesn't peg the CPU to 100C instantly, I bet a lot of the performance gap would vanish. On the other hand the M1 doesn't even have a fan, so there's that...