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Apple M2 on Linux Performance Against AMD Zen 4 Mobile SoCs
- wmf 3y agoNote that this is comparing the 4C M2 against 8C Ryzens.
- isthatafact 3y agoThe M2 in the macbook air tested would seem to be an 8 core cpu. According to wikipedia, the macbook air M2 models all have 8 cpu cores: 4 "performance" cores plus 4 "efficiency" cores.
- wmf 3y agoI should have said 4P vs. 8P. The E-cores contribute very little performance.
- nateb2022 3y agoIndeed. In fact, it has been approximated that an E-core performs at about 25% of a P-core.[0] [0]: https://eclecticlight.co/2022/10/05/making-the-most-of-apple-silicon-power-2-core-capabilities/ https://eclecticlight.co/2022/10/05/making-the-most-of-apple...
- Farfignoggen 3y agoThe Biggest issue I have with Phoronix is that all the charts need to list the processors' advertised clock speeds and for the M2 SOC that's around 3.4GHZ while the x86 processors have much higher clocks that run from the base clock up to the boost clock but have some average sustained boost clock behavior on different workloads. And the x86 processors are clocked on average about 2 GHz higher there than the M2 SOC. But this testing is more about the Linux Driver maturity on the Apple silicon hardware and no games or Blender 3D testing was done there probably because 3D acceleration support on Linux for Apple Silicon is still a work in progress. There is all sorts of Specialized Heterogeneous compute IP on the M series SOCs and the Linux OS developers will take years more getting all that supported if they can ever get that done completely.
- wmf 3y agoClock speed doesn't matter.
- ThePowerOfFuet 3y ago>Due to budget constraints (thanks, ad-block users...) that's all that is available for this comparison. Greatest respect to Phoronix, but today's ads are privacy-intrusive and sometimes literally malware. Have they considered self-hosting high-quality curated ads themselves?
- grigio 3y agoI hope in more 7840u laptop models