Apple’s M1 chip fastest laptop CPU in the world

[Axtremus]

@axtremus said in Apple’s M1 chip fastest laptop CPU in the world:

Even more comparisons (new ones added 2021-08-03, rearranged from fastest to slowest):

• Apple M1 (2020 MacBook Air) : 202.37 real. 202.00 user. 0.41 sys
• Xeon E5 (2013 Mac Pro) : 507.49 real. 507.43 user. 0.41 sys
• Core i5 (2018 MacBook Air) : 575.74 real. 571.99 user. 0.91 sys
• netcup "VPS 1000 G9": 580.35 real. 568.84 user. 13.05 sys
• aws "t2.small": 713.58 real. 702.96 user. 0.10 sys
• aws "t2.micro": 744.17 real. 743.85 user. 0.00 sys

The "netcup VPS 1000 G9" refers to the same type of server used to host TNCR, from these results, you can see that its "compute" performance is roughly the same an Intel Core i5 used in a 2018 MacBook Air. (Klaus, don't worry, I ran the test on a separate server, I am now also a netcup customer and took out a "VPS 1000 G9" separately myself. )

The "aws" items refer to Amazon Web Services' two different server platforms. The "aws t2.small" costs more than twice the "netcup VPS 1000 G9" but perform worse anyway, but AWS allows me to very flexibly rent it "by the hour". netcup provides much lower prices but the low price requires a one-year commitment.

The "t2.micro" is just an even slower, even cheaper server option from AWS. It's a "teaser" item provided by AWS to entice hobbyists and perhaps events students/academics to try out AWS, in that AWS will let you take out a "t2.micro" for "free" with various limitations.

With these comparisons, I am quite impressed that netcup can provide a fairly high-performing server (with tons of storage/bandwidth) this economically, and that Klaus managed to find it when looking for a new home for TNCR.

[Klaus]

@axtremus said in Apple’s M1 chip fastest laptop CPU in the world:

With these comparisons, I am quite impressed that netcup can provide a fairly high-performing server (with tons of storage/bandwidth) this economically, and that Klaus managed to find it when looking for a new home for TNCR.

To be honest, the main reason why I stumbled upon Netcup was a Google search for "2 girls 1 cup".

[George K]

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[Copper]

Speed isn't everything
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Just kidding

[Klaus]

Well, the problem these days is: speed isn't speed. A CPU that is fast at doing one thing may be slow at doing another. It also depends a lot on how well the programmers and compiler writers optimize their programs for a particular kind of CPU.