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https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/11/m1-macbook-air-first-benchmark/amp/
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Russ has one incoming, I am waiting for that before deciding what to do.
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Incidentally, one reason for the unusually high Geekbench scores is that Geekbench favours high memory bandwidth, rather than pure CPU computational power. In actual CPU-bound tasks, it's fairly likely it won't be anywhere near as high up the table.
EDIT - although I massively resent the £800 upgrade cost for 64GB of RAM Frigging Apple Tax... That's almost 4x the cost of some Corsair Vengeance!
It's LPDDR4X, which is slightly faster than standard DDR4, but that advantage won't last long.
Also, in terms of GPU-accelerated tasks, LPDDR4X is significantly slower than the RAM used by GPUs these days by a factor of 10, so things like video rendering are going to suck balls regardless of how fast the on-die GPU is...in comparison to, say, a MBP with a discrete GPU.
An on-package shared RAM pool is a great way to cover for lower CPU performance in some real-world workloads, but it has significant implications outside of those specific circumstances. And, in the real world, there are very few CPU-based workloads that are constrained by memory bandwidth in a way that this particular approach could solve the problem.
I guess what I'm saying is...if you were going to design a CPU to do really well in Geekbench, this is how you'd do it - drop all the features that it doesn't need, like enough PCI Express lanes to run 10Gb/s networking, extra Thunderbolt ports and external GPUs, stick the RAM in the package and increase the thermal envelope relative to its previous incarnations. As a few people have said, though, these new products are basically iPads with better thermal dissipation.
In other news, the Windows machine they used for comparison in the graphs where the M1 eclipsed the Intel CPU was...an unspecified i3, according to the product page. Not really the sort of thing you'd expect to compare a premium product to.
On the bright side, I guess they can finally justify charging whatever the hell they want for Mac RAM
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