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This is very cool, sure the performance isn’t as good as Apple’s stuff but a reasonably performant processor with official Linux support is very cool
by jamesy0ung 2y ago
This is very cool, sure the performance isn’t as good as Apple’s stuff but a reasonably performant processor with official Linux support is very cool
- darthrupert 2y agoApple Silicon is officially supported in Linux.
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- Tiberium 2y agoI think by "official" they meant support from the manufacturer.
- pavlov 2y agoLaptops with this chip are not shipping yet, so it’s a bit early to judge performance.
- threeseed 2y agoThere are some early benchmarks which put its performance behind iPad: - Snapdragon X Elite (2,574 / 12,562) - iPad M4 (3,630 / 13,060)
- sspiff 2y agoWhat benchmark is this? Geekbench? Geekbench is notoriously inconsistent across platforms. Not saying the iPad chip isn't faster, but I wouldn't judge by Geekbench scores alone...
- TiredOfLife 2y agoDo you have a source for Geekbench 6 being inconsistent across platforms?
- Xeamek 2y agoWhat device was this benchmark run on?
- pavlov 2y agoSince we’re talking about Linux support, the iPad benchmarks seem irrelevant. It’s a completely different kernel. Asahi Linux benchmarks on an M3 MacBook Air would be the closest thing here.
- saagarjha 2y agoThis is a CPU benchmark, not a test of what OS is running on it.
- pavlov 2y agoIt’s common to have 5-10% differences on benchmarks between Linux and Windows on the same hardware. iPadOS is even more different (for example, no swap, and many other similar fundamental optimizations for single-app usage).
- saagarjha 2y agoIt seems very unlikely that Geekbench would swap
- schaefer 2y agoAccording to the asahi website, support is currently available for m1 and m2 macs only[1]. Time will tell about m3 macs. [1]: https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support https://asahilinux.org/fedora/#device-support
- lozenge 2y agoYou can't benchmark a chip. It all depends on how much power and heat dissipation the actual device can provide. When the MacBook Pro comes out it should run circles round the iPad. And there are no Snapdragon X devices yet
- viraptor 2y agoSure you can. Measure performance when not thermally throttled and at the lowest speed / no boost. All real devices will fall in between those numbers.
- KingOfCoders 2y agoThe metric I'm interested in is mostly system performance, not CPU performance. How fast can a system compile my projects that is.