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Why does the M2 have such a low CPU benchmark? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by maybeklaus@alien.top to c/apple@hardware.watch

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I compared the M2 with several other CPUs (using cpubenchmark.net) that are in the same money-range and the M2 has a shockingly low score compared to other CPUs. For example, while the Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz scored 15416, the AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS scored 28917 and the Intel Core i7-13650HX 32119.

I don't know how reliable these benchmarks are, but I wasn't expecting M2 to be so bad. Am I missing something or? I wanted to buy a Macbook air M2 16GB 256GB, since I keep hearing how awesome it is, but now I'm not sure. Someone pls explain.

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[–] BlendlogicTECH@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lol this is what non-apple fan people have been saying all along. And you'll see people defend Apple saying benchmarks dont matter.

Its all about trade offs - yes I've had windows laptops act weird - and Ive thougth MacOS has some quirks that I like better in Windows (Such as streaming/ Voiicemeter to control mic)

Overall - Apple laptops now with apple silicon are reliable devices with good battery life and decent performance on and off battery. Only windows laptops with AMD processors are decent off battery in my opinion - otherwise you trade off low battery life to maintain the performance with Intel CPU's (from my 2 windows devices)

If you are plugged in and want raw performance and dont care about heat or fan noise - windows laptops win. + gaming is just built natively for it so it will always run better frame rates then MacOS.

[–] JohrDinh@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

and dont care about heat or fan noise

This is one of the big selling points for many people. I used to have an Alienware that was plenty powerful but made a ton of noise and pumped heat onto my legs like standing in front of a bonfire, that's just not fun to use as a mobile product imo.

[–] BlendlogicTECH@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Yea on your laptop sometimes these heavy gaming laptops aren’t ideal.

Before m1 though my previous MacBooks got hot.

And one test with my m3 pro it did get hot and fans happened - think I was testing cyberpunk - and I thought damn burned my legs.

Windows laptops i never entertained idea of gaming on lap - or at least now I have a couch pad mini desk to do it.

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