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Apple's A18 delivers solid performance gains, challenges Ryzen 9 9950X in single-core Geekbench (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's geekbench though...unless things have changed that's a garbage benchmark. Glad A18 is doing well, but it doesn't compete with the laptop/desktop space. If it did, they wouldn't bother making the M series.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, geekbench has long been known to favor iPhones. Even compared to other mobile SoCs like Qualcomm or MediaTek, it's... uh... "optimized" for what Apple chips are designed around.

Using it on a desktop for benchmarking is... Even more useless.

On top of that:

  1. The single core number obviously only uses one big core, of which Apple's chip only has 2.

  2. The score only reflects the maximum burst speed (it's not expected to sustain that kind of performance for more than 10 seconds. Even using both big cores simultaneously would cut that score short due to overheating.

  3. Desktop cpu has 16 cores that are all identical, and is expected to sustain those workloads indefinitely. Servers and supercomputers run these things 24/7.

  4. The desktop cpu is on an older node as well, inherently less power efficient.

It's a bit like saying, "for 10 seconds, I can run as fast as the world's fastest marathon ~~runner~~ TEAM!". Neat factoid but still incomparable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That's a great breakdown of it. Thanks for taking the time to lay it all out.