Mac Mini Developer Kit and Geekbench

[iPadified]

Oh my, its identical to the iPad Pro, what a surprise

No it is not, but we learned that iOS and MacOS benchmarks are directly comparable. Many have doubted that. It also means that the A12Z has the performance of 7700k iMac.

 

[leman]

No it is not, but we learned that iOS and MacOS benchmarks are directly comparable. Many have doubted that. It also means that the A12Z has the performance of 7700k iMac.

You mean, macOS running an iOS app gets a comparable benchmark result as the same hardware running iOS directly?

Jokes aside, I would fully expect Geekbench to produce similar results on ARM iOS and ARM macOS - its same hardware and software after all. It does not mean that Geekbench results are comparable across different architectures.

 

[thunng8]

Oh my, its identical to the iPad Pro, what a surprise

It is interesting that the metal score is about 25% higher though.

 

[thunng8]

That's not bad for an iPad Pro chip running a full desktop OS:
10% below the 2020 MBP(i5) on singlecore, but a little above on multicore.

Geekbench compute score is about 30% higher on the DTK. Even with this older CPU that was designed to fan fanless on an ipad pro - performance in these benchamrks is overall better than the high end 13" macbook Pro

 

[mr_jomo]

Geekbench compute score is about 30% higher on the DTK. Even with this older CPU that was designed to fan fanless on an ipad pro - performance in these benchamrks is overall better than the high end 13" macbook Pro

Yeah - just saw the compute score also. Very, very promising - November can't come soon enough 🥳.

 

[leman]

It is interesting that the metal score is about 25% higher though.

Oh, thanks for pointing it out! I suppose it’s because the chip has more room to breathe in the larger enclosure. Anandtech article mentioned that the GPU is thermally constrained by the iPad chassis.

 

[LancesUK]

According to new leaks, on October 27th Apple will release the first systems. Apparently two laptops, one macbook pro and one labeled just macbook. It is coming, guys.

 

[MikhailT]

According to new leaks, on October 27th Apple will release the first systems. Apparently two laptops, one macbook pro and one labeled just macbook. It is coming, guys.

The leaks are saying Apple will have two separate events, not the actual release dates. They can reveal new products and ship them later. The date you're referring to is the second event in late Oct for Macs and iPad Pros.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1286651737172893698

 

[LancesUK]

Yes, exactly.

 

[Waragainstsleep]

Oh, thanks for pointing it out! I suppose it’s because the chip has more room to breathe in the larger enclosure. Anandtech article mentioned that the GPU is thermally constrained by the iPad chassis.

They have a lot more RAM too.