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The thing is, "Apple Silicon" computers are very fast. They are, obviously, not the fastest computers you can possibly buy, but rather than monetize fast CPU co
by jchw 2y ago
The thing is, "Apple Silicon" computers are very fast. They are, obviously, not the fastest computers you can possibly buy, but rather than monetize fast CPU cores Apple mainly monetizes SSD and RAM and does minimal segmentation on the CPU, so even the lowest end Mac devices are absurdly fast compared to low end PCs. Rosetta is also pretty fast, depending on the workload, since the hardware is specialized to support fast x86 emulation.
I reckon a lot of games on Apple Silicon would end up GPU bound before CPU bound.
- bjourne 2y agoCPU benchmarks such as PassMark does not indicate that Apple Silicon has a performance edge over Intel or AMD CPUs in any price range: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
- Thews 2y agoHere's where they shine, https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
- mceachen 2y agoTo my eye that looks essentially like a tie, which may seem like not that big of a deal. When I run compilation and multithreaded integration tests on my chonky AMD Ryzen 9 5950X (16 cores, 32 threads) on Ubuntu 24.04, and on my 2020 M1 Mac mini (8 cores), *the mini keeps up*. It’s quite impressive.
- jchw 2y agoThe pricing issue is complicated because you can't consider the price of the Apple CPU on its own. However, you can get a Mac with 16 GiB of RAM, 256 GiB of SSD storage, and 10 cores of Apple M4 for $600. Even if you use the least charitable benchmarks for the M4, that is going to put it way above a similarly-priced PC. Of course, once you start upgrading the RAM and SSD, the prices will lift into the sky.