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This kind of changes the narrative about the Intel/ AMD competition of late. For the past few years people have been suggesting AMD has been hitting it out of t
by ogre_codes 6y ago
This kind of changes the narrative about the Intel/ AMD competition of late. For the past few years people have been suggesting AMD has been hitting it out of the park in terms of performance. This suggests that's not necessarily the case.
AMD didn't have to hit it out of the park to humiliate Intel, they just needed to be competent. A professional ball club doesn't need a team of All Stars to embarrass a farm team.
- kllrnohj 6y agoWell note that this seems to be nearly all single-core (or low-core) benchmarks, whereas AMD's Ryzen performance recommendation has always been around its multithreaded performance, with its single-core performance called out specifically as being a compromise (until the 5000 series, anyway, which wasn't used here). Something like an ObjC or C++ compilation test would be very interesting here.
- ogre_codes 6y agoYep. It's a bit of tit for tat though. It's AMD's desktop CPUs versus Apple's new mobile CPU. But the benchmarks in question don't leverage all of AMDs cores. Over the next couple years things should have more clarity when AMD moves to TSMC's 5nm CPUs and Apple releases their higher core CPUs.
- viktorcode 6y agoHere you go (check for WebKit compiling time): https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro-is-powerful-but-its-the-battery-life-that-will-blow-you-away/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubWFjcnVtb3JzLmNvbS8yMDIwLzExLzE3L2FwcGxlLXNpbGljb24tbTEtY29tcGlsZXMtY29kZS1hcy1mYXN0LWFzLW1hYy1wcm8v&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAES6c39TGAHvqEx1wiKQSt9QLqGPzEmX6lKUzwFyCdSTtlvAg8kHTyCSKka2TRYx_phj5QuEL0f_8JKWOWe-x8RVK-5uvh1-Jodg3YvS_OmL0ZRSktlT5eEL3rmVg62UJHJyfFY3hHwR8eBeWVc5j8GQf8D61KhsDKkbFM01tNeh https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/17/yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro...
- kllrnohj 6y agoThat doesn't compare against a 3900X or any other Ryzen CPU. It doesn't even compare against something not as heavily throttled as Apple's previous MacBooks.