Originally posted by tildearrow
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tl;dr: I don't really notice any meaningful performance benefit for basic daily tasks between my 14" MBP, a 2020 i7 MBP, or older gear like my T480 with an 8th gen i5 (or truthfully, even older laptops going back to Haswell i7 with DDR3 and SATA SSDs). I do notice the battery life, thermals, and acoustics being vastly superior. And yes, if you give these SoCs room to stretch their legs with workloads that can leverage all the cores and/or the GPU, the performance is awesome as well, especially considering the packaging. Even this "low spec" base model with 8 cores offers nearly double the single threaded performance of a 14nm Broadwell Xeon 2690v4 and 78% of the multi-threaded performance in Cinebench R23. An absurd comparison against an old 135W 14 core / 28 thread server CPU, but this feels like good progress in 6 years. And I can't wait for QC/NUVIA to give us something similar outside of the Apple ecosystem.
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