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But the Ryzen 3900X is a desktop processor, right? This is crazy - definitely was not expecting the M1 to be _better_ than the 3900X.
by alexchantavy 6y ago
But the Ryzen 3900X is a desktop processor, right? This is crazy - definitely was not expecting the M1 to be _better_ than the 3900X.
- freeAgent 6y agoIt’s a desktop processor, but also last generation. The latest Ryzens are the 5xxxx series, and the performance improvement is substantial.
- andreime 6y agoalso ... single core performance m1, like the a* chips are great at single core performance m1, like the a* chips are underwhelming at multi-core performance last gen ryzen was competitive at single core performance, and great at multicore current gen ryzen is great at both
- Recurecur 6y agoThis isn't correct. A fair number of these benchmarks were multithreaded, and the M1 held its own very well, despite being at a substantial disadvantage (8 threads (only 4 on performance cores) for M1 versus 24 for Ryzen 3900X). That said, single threaded performance is extremely important, since not everything can be parallelized. Amdahl's Law, eh? Don't worry though, I'm sure Apple Silicon is coming with many more cores. Amazon's Graviton2 shows how ARM can perform with massive core counts... As to the current Ryzen (5000 series), it's a great chip and what I'm planning to use in a new build, but it also has a 105W power budget. We'll see what Apple produces for its desktop entries soon enough!