It turns out that the processor Apple M2 It wouldn’t be as powerful in environments outside of the platform developed by the guys from Cupertino. This is demonstrated by a recent benchmark made on Linux where the family of AMD processors was much superior.
Over the past few months we’ve seen the sensation of a new era opening for the computer industry with the company behind the iPhone foraying into developing its own computer chips.
The experience of using a Mac powered by a processor M1 or M2 It’s downright extraordinary. These computers fly and the speed is such that any user feels in a new stage never before experienced within that platform.
However, the reality is that the industry would have also presented more than important advances in this field where Apple would have monopolized the spotlight.
Now, with the initial hype over, it’s time to compare the different modern chips on the market in different environments.
Thanks to this, it is possible to measure the real situation with a better magnitude among the different options that exist today.
The Apple M2 is surpassed by a wide margin in the Linux benchmark: this is how the AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme runs
The AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor technically belongs to the company’s Zen 4 family. This is one of the most modern chips they have released in years. But there was a frank doubt about what its real power was compared to the Apple M2.
The answer has finally been given to us by the people of Phoronix, a site specialized in Linux that has set up a comparative benchmark test focused on the Apple chip and a couple of AMD models. Where, in the final results, the hardware of the Cupertino company finished very low:
The AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme chip is a high-performance processor currently powering relatively popular portable gaming devices like the ROG Ally. It is an octa-core chip with 16 threads at 5.1 GHz and with a cTDP between 9 W and 30 W.
For its part, the Ryzen 7 7840U is another Zen 4 chip found in Acer’s Swift Edge 16, with a similar design of eight cores and 16 threads at 5.1 GHz. Unlike the Ryzen Z1 Extreme, the Ryzen 7 7840U has 28W, although the chip has a cTDP between 15W and 30W.
With these qualities in the test results, AMD’s Zen 4 processors swept the Apple M2. With balanced mode on the ROG Ally, the Ryzen Z1 Extreme delivered 28.7% better performance than the Apple M2.
In terms of performance, the difference increased to 95.7% with the ROG Ally chip and 75.8% with the Ryzen 7 7840U.
So the obvious conclusion is that the Apple M2 is perfect for equipment developed by that company, and no more.