While there are many valid concerns about issues like compatibility, the transition process and loss of legacy applications, many readers fundamentally questioned whether chips that Apple has developed for over a decade to run iOS and its variants are powerful enough to run a ‘real’ OS.
The first prototypes of Macs running Apple Silicon are now out in the wild, and speed tests are starting to appear that suggest that performance worries may be overblown.
Geekbench metrics of the prototype Apple Silicon Mac in Apple’s Developer Transition Kit, which is based on a 2018 iPad Pro processor, show that a Mac with a repurposed iPad chip, running Geekbench in emulation mode via Rosetta, has better Multi-Core performance than a 2020 Macbook Air based on an Intel Core i3 processor:
‘Apple Silicon’ Geekbench:
2020 Macbook Air Geekbench:
The Macbook Air is an entry level machine, so as a point of comparison we checked benchmark’s on one of Synthtopia’s Mac laptops, a 15-inch Late 2016 MacBook Pro.
MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2016) Geekbench:
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