But if you compare the power consumption to PC desktops, OMFG! Except that nobody really cares about the power consumption of PC desktops. There are already PC laptops with 9+ hours of battery life (and no matter how little the CPU uses, you still have to run the screen and everything else), so the practical impact of this isn't enormous, but it's there. Compared to PC laptops, it's a somewhat less power. Meanwhile the primary real advantage of the M1 is that it uses less power. How does it compare to Zen 3? Well, Zen 3 laptops were still a few months away when the M1 was released, but Zen 2 desktops were only a single digit percentage faster than Zen 2 laptops, so how does it compare to Zen 3 desktops? People were primarily comparing it to desktop CPUs because of where we were in the release cycle. But "competitive" and "dramatically better" are not the same thing. Which is a first in a long time for anybody outside of AMD/Intel/Nvidia. Both the CPU and GPU are competitive with existing CPUs and GPUs. I’m just afraid it might get overshadowed by the fact that it doesn’t live up to some of the fairly extreme performance claims that got tossed around in the days following the launch. This is actually an impressive accomplishment out of Apple. > Pretty much what we would expect, with the M1 Max having about 8x less performance, but at 8x less power, so performance per watt is surprisingly quite comparable between the two. In fact, a lot of the GPU tests here show more or less what I’ve seen: That Apple has matched the power/performance of other leading-edge GPU hardware: It’s fast, but it’s not actually crushing my AMD/nVidia desktop like a lot of news outlets were suggesting it would. Huge step up from last gen Apple laptops.īut at the same time, it feels like some of the rhetoric around the performance claims got a little out of hand in the wake of the launch. This mirrors my experience with my M1 Max: Absolutely amazing battery life and performance in a laptop.
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