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| Intel evaluates Apple Silicon with selective results |
Intel claims that while a comparison of Intel's 11th-generation chips and the M1 chipset shows this is done under the conditions chosen by the chip manufacturer, the processor lineup is still superior to the Apple Silicon.
Apple's silicon chip was shown to the public a few months ago that when compared to Mac subscribers, the M1 has improved its performance compared to previous Intel chipsets that Apple used in some products.
However, Intel continues to advertise that its products still have superior performance in practical applications.
In presentation slides posted on the Tom Hardware website, claims of similar hardware have been suspected in some cases.
The display compares the 13-inch MacBook Pro with the M1 and 16GB of RAM with its own internal white box, which houses a quad-core Core i7-1185G7 processor with eight threads, has a maximum speed of 4.8GHz and is packed with 16GB of memory. RAM.
While there are many precautionary measures, display chipsets generally show that Intel chipsets are comparable to or better for different tasks.
First, these standards use Intel's actual use policy testing, which is a series of experiments that most other testers don't seem to be actively following.
This includes running various tests with WebXPRT 3 in Chrome, Microsoft Office 365, and Topaz Labs' AI-based tools.
There are also standards that use more popular tools, including HandBrake and Adobe Creative Cloud apps. However, the data originally provided is from less frequently used tests.
Intel announced the results, showing that its chipset is 30% faster than the M1 chip in general, nearly three times faster in our online image optimization test, and some features (like exporting PDF in Office 365) are 2.3 times faster.
Intel Handbrake testing appears to completely avoid using hardware transcoding via the M1 while using the Intel QuickSync hardware process for testing Windows.
Although Apple is committed to supporting machine learning in the M1, Intel is still working hard to fix this issue, claiming that the chip speed in the Topaz Labs test is six times faster than the M1.
In Premiere testing, Intel is expected to be 1.7 times faster, while Photoshop and Lightroom Classic tests, whose compatibility is based on Rosetta 2, are 1.5 times faster than Intel.
Strangely, when it comes to gaming performance, Intel has shown a number of results including "Hitman 3" better than its chipsets on the M1, Intel in "Borderland 3" and "Tomb Raider" among others. The game also showed similar or superior results.
Surprisingly, Intel has reported that there is a library of games that cannot be played on the M1, including Hitman 2, Metro: Exodus, GRID 2019, and countless other games. The company compares this to calculating zero frames per second.
Intel also claimed that the M1 failed 8 out of 25 tests, including relatively simple tasks like switching to Calendar in Outlook and starting a video conference in Zoom, even on the M1 Mac.
In an effort to rebut Apple's claim that its MacBook Air had a battery life of up to 18 hours in its own tests, Intel claims that its battery life under various testing conditions (for example when using Netflix broadcasts and tabs) had 10 hours of battery life. 12 minutes. . Safari.
Intel strives to present itself and its products in the best possible way, but the result is selective.
Although it has confirmed support for Apple's move to the Apple chipset, Intel is under great pressure to maintain its prominent position in the chipset.
The company has been criticized for overtaking competitors, including customers like Apple who are starting to make their own chips and seeing competitors like AMD and Nvidia enter the market like AI processing.