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Apple Looks to Regain Chip Bragging Rights With Trio of M3 Processors (www.bloomberg.com)

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[–] jimgeosmail@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Did they ever lose them?

[–] cuentanueva@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Depends on what you are measuring/bragging about.

Efficiency is the one that's still a win for Apple. But raw power has been surpassed by Intel and AMD. Also Apple's GPU was already surpassed last year with Snapdragon 8 gen 2, and even more with the gen 3.

Plus the upcoming Qualcomm's chip may be comparable in power efficiency, they claimed 30% less power use at the same performance as the M2 Max. So M3 would need to be much better in that sense to still have bragging rights next year.

Basically, significantly different story from when the M1 released where the gap was bigger. The others are catching up fast.

[–] EssentialParadox@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What’s your source for that?

Searching for benchmark scores on the Snapdragon 8 gen 3 turned up this:

The Apple M1 leads the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 by a hefty +55.58% in the single-core test and +31.47% in the multi-core benchmark – bearing in mind that’s comparing our median marks for the M1 against the theoretical best for the Windows on ARM-based laptop. Understandably, the advantages for the Apple M2 are even greater, with the new MacBook Air/Pro processor snagging a massive +72.57% lead over the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 in the single-core run and enjoying a +54.89% multi-core difference. So while the Qualcomm processor does offer a very attractive generational performance leap over its own family, it is clearly a distant runner-up to the Apple M-series.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Snapdragon-8cx-Gen-3-vs-Apple-M2-ARM-based-ThinkPad-X13s-Geekbench-records-show-generational-improvement-but-still-years-behind-Apple-silicon.629767.0.html

And even that article was from before the M2 Pro and Max CPUs came out…

[–] cuentanueva@alien.top 1 points 2 years ago

The one that I said could compete with the M series is their upcoming X Elite platform with the Oryon CPU. Here's a thread from a few days ago about it.

As for the GPU side for which I used the Snapdragon 8 gen 3, you can look the Geekerwan review here.

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