At the WWDC developer conference a couple of days back, Apple formally declared the movement of Mac to oneself created Arm design Apple Silicon processor, and the working framework has additionally developed to the new macOS Big Sur 11.0. Apple reported that it will finish the substitution of Intel x86 design processors inside two years.
Be that as it may, at the previous press conference, Apple didn’t reveal the significant boundaries of the Apple Silicon processor. At present, it is just realized this is an Arm design processor based on TSMC’s 5nm process. So how does its presentation contrast with Intel processors?
Recently, the first batch of Apple Silicon’s running scores appeared unexpectedly in the GeekBench 5 database: single-core 736-844, multi-core 2582-2962.
As a comparison, the 13-inch MacBook Pro equipped with the Intel Core i5-1038NG7 processor and macOS 10.15 system has a running score of approximately 1200 points and 4400 points. The 2018 version of the Mac Mini can also reach 1015 points and 5275 points.
Therefore, from the point of view of running points, Apple Silicon processors still have a big gap with Intel processors in performance. However, it should be noted that these results of Apple Silicon come from the initial development platform, such as the beta version of macOS Big Sur, and use Rosetta 2 to simulate the x86 code, so it is not surprising that the score is very low.
In addition, GeekBench 5 shows that the Apple Silicon processor has only 4 processor cores, but the A12Z has 4 large cores and 4 small cores. It is temporarily unclear whether GeekBench 5 displays an error or the small core is not used.
