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Embarrassingly Apple's Two-Year Old ARM Chip Benchmarks Faster Than Microsoft's Surface Pro X

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

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:

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: 4, Interesting) by helel on Wednesday July 01 2020, @01:51PM (1 child)

    by helel (2949) on Wednesday July 01 2020, @01:51PM (#1015003)

    From Wikipedia: AnandTech theorized that the A12Z is a re-binned variant of the A12X...

    The A12X has been in use in Apple hardware for two years. It seems like one could "well actually" for either side here if they wanted to.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday July 01 2020, @06:12PM

    by FatPhil (863) <{pc-soylent} {at} {asdf.fi}> on Wednesday July 01 2020, @06:12PM (#1015104) Homepage
    But if it's got different branding, and different wattage, isn't the most parsimonious conclusion the one that they're different?
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