Recent content by aaronage

Wait, woah, hold up ✋ You’re telling me that a premium package comes with a premium price tag? I’m shocked! I’m sure the target market will take your sage advice and eschew the convenience of a turn-key solution in the pursuit of maximum value. After all, everyone is a networking enthusiast...

Gosh the incessant whinging here is tiring “I use wired networking, why doesn’t this wireless solution cater to me!” “It’s expensive, I could use that money for some other totally unrelated things!” “I want the latest and greatest but I don’t want to pay for it, ugh!”

OS is always a factor regardless of the benchmark. The difference between platforms was much greater in earlier versions of Geekbench that used different compilers for each OS. Now that clang is used for every build, there’s a much smaller difference between Windows, Linux and macOS (though...

Sorry, didn’t mean to accuse you of being a fanboy - was supposed to be a more general comment (Geekbench always gets caught up in the whole PC vs. Mac nonsense)

Primate Labs publishes all these details: https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench6-benchmark-internals.pdf This doc ^ describes all the test cases, which ISA extensions are used, how the scores are weighted, why multi-core scales the way it does etc. Geekbench is way overhated online. It’s a...

There’s something super grim about reducing accusations of slave labour to whataboutism for internet points 🤢 If this was truly a concern for you, you would boycott all electronics. Everything from mining to manufacturing to e-waste comes at a significant cost to people and the environment…

I have an M3 Pro machine. If I run a full CPU load (Cinebench, multi-threaded compile etc.) the total system power draw from battery (reported by AlDente) is <30W. It can use double that when both the CPU and GPU are maxed out. I don’t know how notebookcheck are measuring it - maybe they report...

“Nearly quadrupling the power for performance gains in the 10% to 30% region isn’t particularly efficient. However, Geerling did note that the dev kit’s Snapdragon X Elite scored about on par with Apple’s M3 Pro for only “a bit more power.”” Geerling is wrong. It’s not just “a bit more power”...

It’s a relevant comparison. Apple Silicon, X Elite should be included in these discussions in general. Lunar Lake is supposed to be Intel’s answer to the base Apple Mx SoCs, it makes sense to include Apple numbers where possible. The same thinking should be applied to AMD Strix Halo, too. It...

For completeness: Apple M1 (5nm, 2020) OpenCL: ~20000 Metal: ~32000 M2 (4nm, 2022): OpenCL: ~27000 Metal: ~46000 M3 (N3B, 2023): OpenCL: ~30000 Metal: ~47000 M4 (N3E, 2024): OpenCL: TBC Metal: ~53000