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posted by martyb on Wednesday July 01 2020, @05:48AM   Printer-friendly
from the oldie-but-goodie dept.

Apple's A12Z Under Rosetta Outperforms Microsoft's Native Arm-Based Surface Pro X

Apple's Developer Transition Kit equipped with an A12Z iPad Pro chip began arriving in the hands of developers this morning to help them get their apps ready for Macs running Apple Silicon, and though forbidden, the first thing some developers did was benchmark the machine.

Multiple Geekbench results have indicated that the Developer Transition Kit, which is a Mac mini with an ‌iPad Pro‌ chip, features average single-core and multi-core scores of 811 and 2,871, respectively.

As developer Steve Troughton-Smith points out, the two-year-old A12Z in the ‌Mac mini‌ outperforms Microsoft's Arm-based Surface Pro X in Geekbench performance, running x86_64 code in emulation faster than the Surface Pro X can run an Arm version natively.

So the DTK with a two year old iPad chip runs x86_64 code, in emulation, faster than the Surface Pro X runs it natively 😅 Oh boy Qualcomm, what are you even doing? https://t.co/UAlZiwSsF8 — Steve Troughton-Smith (@stroughtonsmith) June 29, 2020


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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @06:54AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @06:54AM (#1014895)

    MS fanbois shedding two tears that they bought overpriced e-waste, amiright?

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by ledow on Wednesday July 01 2020, @07:08AM (2 children)

    by ledow (5567) on Wednesday July 01 2020, @07:08AM (#1014897) Homepage

    I highly doubt that Apple would be the correct company to "teach" that lesson at all.

    And the benchmarks have been discussed all over. Apple wins on one benchmark, and loses at almost everything else. And it's a benchmark - not a real-world usage, but one of those madey-uppy ones that you can easily fudge a processor to.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @07:46AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @07:46AM (#1014907)

      One tear means you killed somebody. Two tears means you run Microsoft. Checks out.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @10:14AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2020, @10:14AM (#1014923)

        Oh, Snap, Eds fixed the headline, and now none of our snark will make any sense. A loss for posterity, I tell you.