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Whether it is fair (or not) is a value judgement. All I said was that the comparison was done poorly. Those choices together with single-threaded memory-intens
by starfallg 5y ago
Whether it is fair (or not) is a value judgement. All I said was that the comparison was done poorly.
Those choices together with single-threaded memory-intensive benchmarks (esp. those sensitive to memory latency) is problematic because the whole point of using a workstation CPU like the Threadripper Pro is for multi-threaded performance with a wide memory bus (sometimes NUMA). And they make a big deal out of it, emphasising the $50k price tag to paint the M1 Pro/Max as some sort of "Dragon Slayer". If they did a more rounded comparison including stuff like kernel compile times, etc. then maybe they are justified, but as it stands it's just unprofessional.
- klelatti 5y agoIt would be utterly astonishing if the the MacBook outperformed the workstation on all benchmarks. The post doesn’t claim that it does. The fact that the MacBook outperforms the workstation on some benchmarks is an interesting and, for some users, relevant datapoint. To point this out with full and detailed disclosure of the tests performed isn’t unprofessional at all.
- ashvardanian 5y agoThanks a lot for support! It feels like some people forgot to read not just the title of the article, but also the subtitle…
- klelatti 5y agoI genuinely thought it was one of the most interesting articles on the M1 we’ve seen. Thanks for your work in putting it together - any follow ups would be much appreciated.