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.
