In fact the M1 is so fast that the Rosetta 2 performance hit is small enough that many users of upgrading from Intel Mac

But the performance results are ticking in from all corners of the world. They tell a story which makes it ever harder to persist in these sorts of claims with a straight face.

16-core Neural Engine. Which make machine learning tasks such as image and text recognition, various video and photo editing tasks up to 15x faster by Apple’s claims. Previous claims about Neural Engine by Apple has been independently verified.

AMD Ryzen CPUs are the ones currently regarded as king of the performance hill. Specifically the AMD Ryzen 9 5000 series have the fastest individual cores. Threadpiper AMD chips will be faster due to more cores.

So the AMD has 50% higher performance by having 50% more cores. Yet the TDP 650% higher. And let us not forget that the 10W on the M1 is not just for the CPU. The 5600X is just a CPU. The M1 in contrast contains:

A frequent argument by PC diehards in response to impressive benchmarks was that “well… these are just synthetic benchmarks and not real applications.” That excuse does not carry much weight anymore either. We have started seeing a string of tests of real world applications and they are equally impressive.

The M1 is not just a CPU, but an SoC with many specialized components bringing dramatic performance improvements in many specialized tasks, such as image and video editing and decoding.

The highest performing CPU today that money can buy is the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X Processor. However this is primarily due to an insane number of cores (64). The AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU is regarded as having the worlds fastest CPU cores. It has 16 CPU cores with max 32 hardware threads. You also get variants with fewer cores. But common to all of these is that the thermal design power (TDP), which is the max heath generated running real applications is 105W. That is what the cooling system have to be able to deal with. The Apple Silicon M1, has a TDP of a mere 10W, which is 10x lower.

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In short these 10W delivers a lot more functionality than the 65W AMD Ryzen delivers. This also underscores how Apple’s tactic differs from the competition. Apple prefers to offload a lot of specialized tasks with high performance demands to custom silicon. That is easy for them to do because they have full vertical integration. E.g. you don’t use the Neural Engine directly, but through Apple frameworks such as Core ML.

The last desperate attempt at saving face has been to insist that the M1 is useless anyway because most apps will have to run through Rosetta 2 and that will give terrible performance. One PC die-hard told me you could easily expect a 5x performance drop from this. Yet the benchmarks we now got suggests this is a desperate dystopian fantasy among Apple haters:

And when the Ryzen and M1 are both running 4 cores they get 6092 and 5622 score respectively. That is impressive for a chip designed for the low end of Apple’s computers. Keep in mind that the AMD Ryzen 9 5000 series is made for high performance desktops with massive cooling systems. Of course these run a lot more cores. But e.g. the Ryzen 5 5600X has 6 cores and has TDP of 65W. Yet in this Cinbench R23 performance comparison done by CPU Monkey there M1 gets 7,508 while the 5600X gets 11,268. That is of course higher but performance per core is pretty much identical:

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For a while I have been reading comments and discussions going between Mac and PC fans on Apple’s transition from x86 to ARM based CPUs (Apple Silicon). There has been a loud and persistent insistence that an ARM based chip cannot possibly compete against AMD and Intel workhorses.

But the “unfortunate” reality for them, is that Apple has rapidly gained on Intel and now surpassed it. This isn’t just Apple bragging and exaggerating. Today we have countless benchmarks by independent testers verifying the same overall picture. AnandTech is one example, Arstechnica another. Their Cinbench 5 tests against the other CPUs used for laptops shows the M1 beating the competition both in singlethreaded and multithreaded performance tests.

People who have spent a small fortune building a large gaming rig with a dozen fans, liquid cooling and overclocking to the max, don’t want to hear that some CPU used in slim boutique cell phones can somehow compete with their monsters.