Apple M1 Performance

The cluster focuses on comparisons of the Apple M1 processor's performance, efficiency, and benchmarks against Intel, AMD, and other CPUs, often highlighting M1's superiority in single-threaded speed, power efficiency, and real-world usage.

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Miraste Nov 14, 2020 View on HN

It's not faster than the M1, is it?

arcosdev Mar 4, 2023 View on HN

Point me at a processor as good as the M1 and I'll buy it

thomasfl Aug 9, 2022 View on HN

The Apple M1 processor should be used as a benchmark. Not other Intel processors.

sliken Jan 13, 2021 View on HN

Yes, but the per core performance favors the M1.

PartiallyTyped Dec 3, 2020 View on HN

Many reviews show the M1 chips offering double the compilation speed of intel based macs.

nojito Jul 1, 2022 View on HN

Why not? It's still a 10-20% performance improvement over the M1

adrian_b Nov 12, 2020 View on HN

Without doubt, the Apple M1 has the highest single-threaded performance of any non-overclocked CPU, being a little faster than AMD Zen 3 and Intel Tiger Lake.Nevertheless, because Apple has chosen to not increase their manufacturing costs by including more big cores, the multi-threaded performance is not at all impressive, being lower than that of many much cheaper laptops using AMD Ryzen 7 4800U CPUs.So for any professional applications, like software development, these new Apple computer

exabrial Jan 4, 2023 View on HN

My M1 MacBook is significantly "faster" than my previous Intel 16", even though the per-core performance are roughly similar in CPU benchmarks (small advantage to M1).I saw a previous HN comment about this being due to memory bandwidth and cache latency, but I can't seem to substantiate that comment.That being said, I'd love to have this sort of performance out of servers. Arm released <a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/17575/arm-annou

bananabreakfast Apr 23, 2021 View on HN

Absolutely. Performance is very noticeable even between the current MBP Intel vs. M1

elheffe80 Nov 14, 2020 View on HN

Try changing it to compare the M1 against a 2080. This is only one generation behind yes? If I could just paste a pic in I would, but I will let you do the work yourself. It is similar. Amazing IMO, and I am no longer an apple fan.