Nearly three months after the launch of Apple’s rave-reviewed M1 Macs, Intel has fired back, but there are some asterisks involved.
In a…
After 40 years of developing x86 processors, Intel manage to edge-out Apple’s first-generation laptop processor on performance (but not battery). Congratulations, Intel. [IMG width=”251px”]https://images.macrumors.com/images-new/macrumorsthreadlogo@3x.png[/IMG] (‘https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/06/intel-11th-gen-vs-apple-m1-chip-benchmarks/’)Nearly three months after the launch of Apple’s rave-reviewed M1 Macs (‘https://www.macrumors.com/guide/m1/’), Intel has fired back, but there are some asterisks involved. In a slideshow shared by PCWorld (‘https://www.pcworld.com/article/3606592/intel-benchmarks-say-apples-m1-isnt-faster.html’) this week, Intel highlighted what PCWorld described as “carefully crafted” benchmarks in an attempt to prove that laptops with the latest 11th Generation Core processors are superior to those with Apple’s custom-designed M1 chip. For example, Intel said that exporting a PowerPoint presentation as a PDF file is up to 2.3x faster on a Windows laptop equipped with an 11th Generation Core i7 processor and 16GB of RAM compared to completing the same task on a 13-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 chip and 16GB of RAM, with Intel noting that PowerPoint ran natively on both systems. Intel also indicated that Topaz Labs’ AI-based photo enlargement software Gigapixel AI performed up to 6x faster on the Core i7 system compared to the M1 MacBook Pro. In this case, PCWorld said “the results are pretty real,” noting that Topaz Labs’ apps are designed to take advantage of the hardware acceleration inside of Intel’s processors.
