<story><title>How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2021/05/17/how-m1-macs-feel-faster-than-intel-models-its-about-qos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>omegabravo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve done a side by side with my Ryzen 3700x compiling a Go project.&lt;p&gt;6 seconds on the Ryzen, vs 9 seconds on the M1 air.&lt;p&gt;`time go build -a`, so not very scientific.  Could be attributed to the multicore performance of the Ryzen.&lt;p&gt;Starting applications on the M1 seems to have significant delays too, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure if that&amp;#x27;s a Mac OSX thing.  Overall it&amp;#x27;s very impressive, I just don&amp;#x27;t see the same lunch eating performance as everyone else.&lt;p&gt;The battery life and lack of fans is wonderful.&lt;p&gt;edit:  Updated with the arm build on OSX.  16s -&amp;gt; 9 seconds.</text></item><item><author>josephg</author><text>I did a side-by-side comparing with my friends&amp;#x27; M1 macbook and my (more expensive, nearly brand new) ryzen 5800x workstation compiling rust. The ryzen was faster - but it was really close. And the macbook beats my ryzen chip in single threaded performance. For reference, the ryzen compiles ripgrep in 19.7 seconds.&lt;p&gt;The comparison is way too close given the ryzen workstation guzzles power, and the macbook is cheaper, portable and lasts 22 hours on a single charge. If Apple can keep their momentum going year over year with CPU improvements, they&amp;#x27;ll be unstoppable. For now it looks like its not a question of if I&amp;#x27;ll get one, but when.</text></item><item><author>kryps</author><text>It does not just feel faster, in many cases it &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; faster.&lt;p&gt;E.g. compiling Rust code is so much faster that it is not even funny. &lt;i&gt;cargo install -f ripgrep&lt;/i&gt; takes 22 seconds on a Mac Book Air with M1, same on a hexacore 2020 Dell XPS 17 with 64GB RAM takes 34 seconds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coder543</author><text>&amp;gt; `time go build -a`, so not very scientific.&lt;p&gt;A tool I have enjoyed using to make these measurements more accurate is hyperfine[0].&lt;p&gt;In general, the 3700X beating the M1 should be the expected result... it has double the number of high performance cores, several times as much TDP, and access to way more RAM and faster SSDs.&lt;p&gt;The fact that the M1 is able to be neck and neck with the 3700X is impressive, and the M1 definitely can achieve some unlikely victories. It&amp;#x27;ll be interesting to see what happens with the M1X (or M2, whatever they label it).&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;sharkdp&amp;#x2F;hyperfine&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;sharkdp&amp;#x2F;hyperfine&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS</title><url>https://eclecticlight.co/2021/05/17/how-m1-macs-feel-faster-than-intel-models-its-about-qos/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>omegabravo</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve done a side by side with my Ryzen 3700x compiling a Go project.&lt;p&gt;6 seconds on the Ryzen, vs 9 seconds on the M1 air.&lt;p&gt;`time go build -a`, so not very scientific.  Could be attributed to the multicore performance of the Ryzen.&lt;p&gt;Starting applications on the M1 seems to have significant delays too, but I&amp;#x27;m not sure if that&amp;#x27;s a Mac OSX thing.  Overall it&amp;#x27;s very impressive, I just don&amp;#x27;t see the same lunch eating performance as everyone else.&lt;p&gt;The battery life and lack of fans is wonderful.&lt;p&gt;edit:  Updated with the arm build on OSX.  16s -&amp;gt; 9 seconds.</text></item><item><author>josephg</author><text>I did a side-by-side comparing with my friends&amp;#x27; M1 macbook and my (more expensive, nearly brand new) ryzen 5800x workstation compiling rust. The ryzen was faster - but it was really close. And the macbook beats my ryzen chip in single threaded performance. For reference, the ryzen compiles ripgrep in 19.7 seconds.&lt;p&gt;The comparison is way too close given the ryzen workstation guzzles power, and the macbook is cheaper, portable and lasts 22 hours on a single charge. If Apple can keep their momentum going year over year with CPU improvements, they&amp;#x27;ll be unstoppable. For now it looks like its not a question of if I&amp;#x27;ll get one, but when.</text></item><item><author>kryps</author><text>It does not just feel faster, in many cases it &lt;i&gt;is&lt;/i&gt; faster.&lt;p&gt;E.g. compiling Rust code is so much faster that it is not even funny. &lt;i&gt;cargo install -f ripgrep&lt;/i&gt; takes 22 seconds on a Mac Book Air with M1, same on a hexacore 2020 Dell XPS 17 with 64GB RAM takes 34 seconds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ideamotor</author><text>I find M1 optimized apps load quickly while others vary. But what really varies is website load times. Sometimes instant, sometimes delayed.&lt;p&gt;All this said, there really is no comparison. I don’t even think about battery for the M1, I leave the charger at home, and it’s 100% cool and silent. It’s a giant leap for portable creative computing.</text></comment>