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zirkonit
> First of all, no matter how good Apple’s ARM core truly is, there is no way in physics that a fanless quad-core Apple M1 is going to outperform an 8-core Intel Core i9.

Well, just two months in, and this claim didn't age well at all.

jack_riminton
The whole piece just reads like a butt-hurt PC guy who can't face reality
rusk
Maybe he’s hoping to get free stuff from Intel?
zirkonit
To provide a bit more nuance to my snark - out of 8-core Intel Core i9's currently sold in laptops, in multi-core Geekbench 5, M1 loses to 9900K by 18%, beats 9980HK by 13% and 9880H by whopping 20%.

In single-core, it is single fastest currently available processor, destroying the aforementioned i9's by 30% to 50%.

zirkonit
To add even more insult to the injury, the only laptop with 9900K you can currently buy in my market is a gaming monstrosity 3.5x more expensive AND 3.5x heavier than M1 MacBook Air.
lmilcin
That is what happens when you invoke physics without understanding it.

No, there is no law that would prevent new SoC to outperform 8-core Intel Core i9.

Personally, when I see stupid argument like that I immediately stop reading. I know it is waste of time.

josemanuel
Worth pointing that This is a piece of report from November 2020! Quite a lot of independent benchmarking has been made since.
[dead] ducksuck
Apple lied? The more shocking part is that people believed them after a decade of gaslighting.
[dead] stopFalse
Apple lied again? Not remotely surprising given their security and privacy track record.
jbverschoor
Apple talks about laptops. Article rants on about high performance desktop pcs and self-built pcs.
Tepix
Indeed. It also confuses "98% of laptops" and "98% of laptops sold". The highest end laptops sell a lot fewer units.
w0utert
Yes,the article's own headline itself claims 'M1 is not faster than 98% of PC laptops', then goes out to 'prove' this by comparing it to 'high-end gaming laptops and desktop PCs'.

I mean it's a pretty stupid, broad and useless claim a CPU is 'faster than 98% of PC laptops' considering this can be interpreted in so many ways at least one of them could make sense. But the article is even worse because of it, failing to even find a single sensible interpretation of Apple's claim that disproves it (which isn't hard at all, if you interpret '98% of PC laptops' as '98% of PC laptop models')

mardiyah
"Specifically, Intel is touting that its new i7-11375H — the top-of-the-line model in the H35 lineup, with four cores, eight threads, and a boosted clock speed of up to 5GHz — offers the fastest single-thread performance of any laptop, matched only by Intel's best 45W H-series chip from last year"

So the quote's confusing naive guys like us either which's actually true