Apple's A18 delivers solid performance gains, challenges Ryzen 9 9950X in single-core Geekbench
Apple's A18 delivers solid performance gains, challenges Ryzen 9 9950X in single-core Geekbench

Apple's A18 delivers solid performance gains, challenges Ryzen 9 9950X in single-core Geekbench

A phone CPU challenging a top of the line desktop GPU is crazy.
Desktop CPU, with a 170W TDP.
Granted, the comparison is an extremely specific synthetic benchmark, but still, I agree: utterly wild.
It doesn't really challenge the desktop CPU in multithreaded tests where the 170w are actually relevant.
The test also includes AI tasks, the Apple chip seems to spend around 20% of real estate on that, the desktop CPU had none.
That's actually nuts. I have an iphone x, I remember when that came out and everyone was surprised that it was as fast as an i5-7200u. Yeah sure it's a dual core laptop chip but still very impressive.
been like this with the Apple A chips for years
I have to demonstrate to my friends every time how my MBP M2 blows my Ryzen 5950x desktop out of the water for my professional line of work.
I can’t catch quite the drift what x86/x64 chips are good for anymore, other than gaming, nostalgia and spec boasting.