As a user of both, it's baffling to me that Intel would be anything but quiet here. I'm blown away by the performance of my M1 every day from everything to compiling big Javascript projects with Webpack to launching and using Photoshop M1 Beta, to browsing the web.
This also looks like they are comparing running Windows versions of software to the OSX version of the software on M1.
So there are 2 MAJOR variables, which they combined... performance of OSX vs Windows and performance of M1 vs i7.
IMHO this benchmark doesn't mean anything just based on that alone.
To accurately compare, they need to run the benchmarks on same processors on Windows vs. OSX to establish the OS performance. Once that is done, you can infer performance between the M1 and current gen mobile i7 processors.
To be honest, this is the reactionary responses that you would expect from someone who is extremely behind. The other thing that is really important to keep in mind is how long and how well established x86 has been for desktops. Apps/frameworks/compilers have definitely optimized for this wherever possible and only in the last few years has ARM has been picking up critical mass for desktops/laptops. Sure over there have been tons of phones/tablets but there haven't been many daily drivers.
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No, they're not the same processor. Why do you keep asking?
So there are 2 MAJOR variables, which they combined... performance of OSX vs Windows and performance of M1 vs i7.
IMHO this benchmark doesn't mean anything just based on that alone.
To accurately compare, they need to run the benchmarks on same processors on Windows vs. OSX to establish the OS performance. Once that is done, you can infer performance between the M1 and current gen mobile i7 processors.
To be honest, this is the reactionary responses that you would expect from someone who is extremely behind. The other thing that is really important to keep in mind is how long and how well established x86 has been for desktops. Apps/frameworks/compilers have definitely optimized for this wherever possible and only in the last few years has ARM has been picking up critical mass for desktops/laptops. Sure over there have been tons of phones/tablets but there haven't been many daily drivers.