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>Yet I was criticized for making the following remark: >In some respect, the Apple M1 chip is far inferior to my older Intel processor. The Intel processor has
by tester756 6y ago
>Yet I was criticized for making the following remark:
>In some respect, the Apple M1 chip is far inferior to my older Intel processor. The Intel processor has nifty 256-bit SIMD instructions. The Apple chip has nothing of the sort as part of its main CPU. So I could easily come up with examples that make the M1 look bad.
>I am not saying that the Apple M1 is not great. It is.
It's sad that this needs to be written.
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- ksec 6y agoYes. The whole Apple M1 chip has turn up the volume of fanboyism. I think it would be better to wait a little longer for things to settle before any serious discussions.
- rsynnott 6y agoPer this thread it does seem like they were severely overstating the problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25409535 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25409535 (tl;dr, their benchmark is likely running _under rosetta_. NEON with native code is far more competitive).