<story><title>Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/10/apple-unveils-m1-its-first-system-on-a-chip-for-portable-mac-computers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sz4kerto</author><text>&amp;quot;Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction MacBook Air systems with Apple M1 chip and 8-core GPU, as well as production 1.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7-based MacBook Air systems, all configured with 16GB RAM and 2TB SSD. Tested with prerelease Final Cut Pro 10.5 using a 55-second clip with 4K Apple ProRes RAW media, at 4096x2160 resolution and 59.94 frames per second, transcoded to Apple ProRes 422. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Air.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is relevant. This means that the performance increase vs Intel is using the extremely throttled 1.2 GHz i7 as the baseline.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>0-_-0</author><text>According to the Anandtech benchmark the A14 (what&amp;#x27;s in the latest iPhone) is 8% below the Ryzen 5950X. M1 is likely faster than that.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;16226&amp;#x2F;apple-silicon-m1-a14-deep-dive&amp;#x2F;4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.anandtech.com&amp;#x2F;show&amp;#x2F;16226&amp;#x2F;apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Quote:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In the overall SPEC2006 chart, the A14 is performing absolutely fantastic, taking the lead in absolute performance only falling short of AMD’s recent Ryzen 5000 series.&lt;p&gt;The fact that Apple is able to achieve this in a total device power consumption of 5W including the SoC, DRAM, and regulators, versus +21W (1185G7) and 49W (5950X) package power figures, without DRAM or regulation, is absolutely mind-blowing.&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable Mac computers</title><url>https://9to5mac.com/2020/11/10/apple-unveils-m1-its-first-system-on-a-chip-for-portable-mac-computers/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sz4kerto</author><text>&amp;quot;Testing conducted by Apple in October 2020 using preproduction MacBook Air systems with Apple M1 chip and 8-core GPU, as well as production 1.2GHz quad-core Intel Core i7-based MacBook Air systems, all configured with 16GB RAM and 2TB SSD. Tested with prerelease Final Cut Pro 10.5 using a 55-second clip with 4K Apple ProRes RAW media, at 4096x2160 resolution and 59.94 frames per second, transcoded to Apple ProRes 422. Performance tests are conducted using specific computer systems and reflect the approximate performance of MacBook Air.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is relevant. This means that the performance increase vs Intel is using the extremely throttled 1.2 GHz i7 as the baseline.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JAlexoid</author><text>The literally benchmarked the &lt;i&gt;slowest&lt;/i&gt; 10th Gen i7 CPU on the market.&lt;p&gt;And I got so excited about it...</text></comment>