{"id":32513,"date":"2020-11-17T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=8fe118bb2f37c6dc082123e899715719"},"modified":"2020-11-17T16:06:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T21:06:18","slug":"hands-on-with-the-apple-m1-a-seriously-fast-x86-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=32513","title":{"rendered":"Hands-on with the Apple M1\u2014a seriously fast x86 competitor [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Ars Technica<\/a><\/p>\n

Article note: Oh, shit, now that there are independent numbers, looks like Apple wasn't cooking the results via thermal throttling the competition as much as I thought. That's a genuinely impressive part.<\/div>
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Enlarge<\/a> \/<\/span> Apple's new octa-core ARM big\/little CPU is putting its high performance x86 competition on notice. (credit: Apple)<\/p> <\/figure>

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Original story 9:00am EST:<\/strong> There's a lot of understandable excitement around Apple's ARM-powered devices<\/a> right now. And we've got traditional reviews of those devices and their ecosystems<\/a>, for Apple fans and the Apple-curious. This is not one of those reviews—though reviews are coming imminently for some of the new Macs. Instead, we're going to take a closer look at the raw performance of the new M1 in comparison to more traditional x86 systems.<\/p>\n

The M1's CPU is a 5nm octa-core big\/little design, with four performance cores and four efficiency cores. The idea is that user-focused foreground tasks, which demand low latency, will be run on the performance cores—but less latency-sensitive background tasks can run slower and lower on the four less-powerful but less power-consumptive efficiency cores.<\/p>\n

In addition to the eight CPU cores, the version of the M1 in the Mac mini has eight GPU cores, with a total of 128 Execution Units. Although it's extremely difficult to get accurate Apples-to-non-Apples benchmarks on this new architecture, I feel confident in saying that this truly is a world-leading design—you can get faster raw CPU performance, but only on power-is-no-object desktop or server CPUs. Similarly, you can beat the M1's GPU with high-end Nvidia or Radeon desktop cards—but only at a massive disparity in power, physical size, and heat.<\/p><\/div>

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