Those are the 35 / 45W laptop chips for bulkier gaming rigs, and they're expected to have a 6 core variant. There's the "H" series Tiger Lake that is coming in Q1. So Tiger Lake was never meant to be a powerful chip either. In point of fact, Tiger Lakes's predecessor "Ice Lake" was used in the MacBook Air 2020. The U line is specifically for thin and light laptops, spec'd either for 15W or 28W. I understand where you're trying to come from, but Tiger Lake is the "U" line. It is not very fair to say "Apple's lowest-end notebook is not super fast." So what? We should be comparing the M1 to an Intel i3. They are putting it inside a Macbook "Air" which is Apple's entry level machine. But we will have to wait.ĬAlbertson said:This "M1" is the absolute low-end of the line. being faster than a 28-core Xeon will be impressive. Will they use 200+ ARM cores or will they build faster cores or do both?īeing faster than an i3 and running with no fan is nice but not really impressive as the i3 is a low bar. Apple promises to replace this with something much better within two years. Today Apple sells a Mac Pro with a 28-core Xeon processor inside. This "M1" is the absolute low-end of the line. All the new cores (Tiger Lake, Zen 3) are much faster in terms of single thread performance. Tom's compared it to 10th gen parts and zen 2. Shady28 said:It didn't beat Tiger Lake in Cinebench single thread - it lost to be blunt - andTiger's multi-thread is within spitting distance of M1 - not impressive given M1 is a 4+4 (fast+slow) core vs Tiger's 4C. This is the best x86 has to offer in a similar space to M1, and M1 isn't really blowing it away or anything : In this case, it's probably battery life, but TGL was already hitting 11-13+ hours on Tom's tests of the XPS 9310. But that has to translate into real gains a user can see and feel. The only place M1 breaks new ground is in performance/watt. It didn't beat Tiger Lake in Cinebench single thread - it lost to be blunt - andTiger's multi-thread is within spitting distance of M1 - not impressive given M1 is a 4+4 (fast+slow) core vs Tiger's 4C. They already lost the console wars and mobile phone markets. If it can also beat it with power and heat, Intel is in real trouble in the mobile space, though not anywhere else. Sleepy_Hollowed said:The article is no clickbait, considering that's the score of an emulated, first generation Apple laptop silicon, so that's pretty amazing. And emulated performance is key, since even certain mainstays like Microsoft Office won't have native M1 support at launch. That’s a relief for anyone who was worried that having to process the Rosetta 2 translation layer would make their new M1 MacBook less powerful on some popular programs than older, Intel-based models. And as for multi-core, it's still leagues ahead of what a Core-i7 2020 MacBook Air can do. Still, that gives it higher single-core scores than any current Intel Mac, including the 2020 27-inch iMac with a Core i9-10910 processor. That’s about 79% as powerful as the same laptop running the native version of Geekbench, which hit scores of 1,687 on single-core tests and 7,433 on multi-core tests. The laptop’s single-core score was 1,313, while its multi-core score was 5,888. Over the weekend, a Geekbench user uploaded numbers for an M1-equipped MacBook Air running an emulated version of the x86 Geekbench test through Apple’s Rosetta 2 translation layer. Even if the new chips are faster in theory, would they be worth it if your favorite x86 programs need to be emulated to run on them? What if the emulation makes them slower in practice? However, according to new benchmark results uploaded to the Geekbench website, this doesn’t appear to be a concern. But now we’re finally starting to see statistics for how well emulated apps run on the M1.Įmulation has been a bit of an albatross around Apple Silicon’s neck since it was first announced. So far, we’ve already seen the chip’s performance numbers in benchmarks for native apps and in graphics tests. Apple’s new M1 Silicon chips start shipping this week, which means the public is finally starting to put them to the test.
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