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I would suspect it's a denominator effect of Apple dropping intel chips.
by fluidcruft 5y ago
I would suspect it's a denominator effect of Apple dropping intel chips.
- gpm 5y agoIntels drop is almost exactly equal to AMDs gain (20% market share between the most recent two laptop datapoints for both). If it was just intel laptops dropping out and converting to apple silicon you wouldn't expect AMD to grow. I suspect that macs just aren't represented in this graph, probably very few people benchmarks macs when they're identical to all the other macs.
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- zsmi 5y ago< I suspect that macs just aren't represented in this graph It looks like their software doesn't support macOS so it's pretty safe to say there are no Macs in the dataset. Their software does support Andriod & iOS. It would be interested to see how these changed if they were included.
- fluidcruft 5y agoI know plenty of people who run Windows on intel Macs (particularly the laptops) in various ways and they actually do play with benchmarks to see how well it works.
- mgolawala 5y agoThey wouldn’t be running windows on the Apple Silicon macs though, just the intel ones.
- fluidcruft 5y agoYeah, that's what I'm saying. Apple Silicon doesn't show up anywhere in the benchmark. If we were seeing a chart of totals rather than percentages, I'd expect to see a void where Apple Silicon entered.
- rdsnsca 5y agoApple says only between 2 and 4 % of its users use Bootcamp to run Windows.
- mumblemumble 5y agoFrom the notes at the bottom: > As the PerformanceTest software only runs on Windows OS and counts on user submitting their benchmarks. This chart may be non reflective of non Windows user base.
- fluidcruft 5y agoYes, but consider if you have three laptops: 1. intel running Windows OS 2. AMD running Windows OS 3. intel Mac running Windows (various ways) Then the intel percentage is (1+2)/(1+2+3) and the AMD percentage is 2/(1+2+3). But if Apple hardware is a significant portion of the benchmarks, then when intel Macs disappear, the fraction of systems that can submit the benchmark decreases. So the intel percentage decreases and the AMD percentage increases. The denominator changes identically for intel and AMD.
- rdsnsca 5y agoApple says only between 2 and 4 % of its users use Bootcamp to run Windows.
- 867-5309 5y agoand also AMD's new integrated graphics
- trynumber9 5y agoI doubt it. Consider that Apple is the #4 personal computer vendor after Lenovo, Dell, and HP. They have less than 10% market share and many of their products are still shipping in Intel versions.