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Any idea what processor Apple is using in the MacBook Air? It sorta matches the 8200Y, but it has UHD 617 graphics and a 1.6GHz base speed. Custom processor?

What's a GB4 in this case? Didn't see that part of the event.

Geekbench 4. Has an iOS and Windows version of the benchmark. Used in a lot of cross platform comparisons

Ohh, for some reason I didn't make the connection that GB = Geekbench

I'd like to see you do a write up on this, have it as an article.

+1. However, I think a good test would be to do something like: I want to do "x" (turn a photo 180 deg, search a multi-gigabyte string array [sorted & unsorted] for a value, perform complex aggregation on a multi-GB 2D array [basically approximating a database table without /2

1\ introducing 3rd party database implementations into the mix, or maybe just search a B-tree]) so let's create some C/C++ programs to do it, and then compare the programs (using different compilers, of course, because they each have their own little niggles) PLUS our /3

2\ hand-tuned assembly programs to do a proper comparison. Dude, that's a metric ton of work if one wants to do it properly, because one needs in-depth knowledge of each hardware platform (Intel, AMD, and ARM) & operating system/software ecosystem PLUS years of experience /4

3\ doing it. <<<EOF>>>

1/\I'm still against cross comparing chips w/ different archs because they'll never run the same binary. How else would you go about creating the same exact conditions on ARM & INTEL chips that will put the different-archs argument to rest? HOW?!

2/\ let's just stick to comparing Intel with AMD, NVIDIA with Radeon, and ARM chips with other ARM chips... Because if we start cross comparing, we're gonna lie to ourselves about the true performance of the processors...

Nope. Not if one sets a uarch-independant goal of a task that needs to be accomplished, like I said in my tweets, and then codes the same algorithm to do it.

The best explanation of this is a 4 year old post on RWT.... Surely you could throw something together that is better and more up to date with its critique!