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Why would you wait for that when you can have a faster CPU in the form of the 5800X today? The M1 is a phenomenal laptop CPU, but it's still not faster than AMD
by kllrnohj 6y ago
Why would you wait for that when you can have a faster CPU in the form of the 5800X today? The M1 is a phenomenal laptop CPU, but it's still not faster than AMD's desktop offerings, either. At least not according to the specint results in the article.
- jeffbee 6y agoThe M1 is much faster on some single-threaded workloads than any other CPU. For example on browser benchmarks M1 is a whopping 60% faster than the 2nd place processor. Browser is an important workload for most people. If you want to run MS Windows then obviously I can't recommend it.
- StillBored 6y agoYah, the M1 is a single threaded beast, but its too power constrained (and apparently not as efficient in a number of cases) to keep up with AMD's less power constrained laptop cores in throughput tests. I think this could be a fine battle with a strong apple lead at least until amd releases a 5nm design, but i'm afraid that apple, will be apple and keep doing thin/light/constrained devices, with maybe a super expensive mac pro that can't be justified by anyone who doesn't burn cash in their grill.