{"id":31596,"date":"2021-02-08T15:55:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T20:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31596"},"modified":"2021-02-19T15:47:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T20:47:36","slug":"intels-m1-benchmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/08\/intels-m1-benchmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel’s M1 Benchmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Nearly three months after the launch of Apple’s rave-reviewed M1 Macs, Intel has fired back, but there are some asterisks involved.<\/p>

In a slideshow shared by PCWorld<\/a><\/em> this week, Intel highlighted what PCWorld<\/em> 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Andrew E. Freedman<\/a> (Hacker News<\/a>, Slashdot<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Intel claims the 11th-Gen system, an internal whitebox with an Intel Core i7-1185G7 and 16GB of RAM, is 30% faster overall in Chrome and faster in every Office task. This largely goes against what we saw in our 13-inch MacBook Pro with M1 review<\/a>, where benchmarks showed M1 to be largely on the same level, if not better.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

Intel also claims that the i7-1185G7 is six times faster than M1 on AI-tools from Topaz Labs and Adobe Premiere, Photoshop and Lightroom functions.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

In battery life, Intel switched to an Intel Core i7-1165G7 notebook, the Acer Swift 5, rather than sticking with the Core i7-1185G7 in the whitebook it used for performance testing. It also tested a MacBook Air. They ran Netflix streams and tabs and found the MacBook Air came ahead with a six-minute difference. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Jason Snell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Inconsistent test platforms, shifting arguments, omitted data, and the not-so-faint whiff of desperation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n