[staffanj]

How is this possible?

I know the Apple M1 is fast but against a 3900X?

Is it mostly storage and memory affecting the results? (doesn't say what storage Ryzen uses).

I mean - I still have a hard time believing that a M1 can outperform a Ryzen 3900X if they benchmark something that uses the CPU 100% for a while - like raytracing.

Or do x86 just suck and we found out now when something else came out?

[andrewprock]

Most of the article uses single core benchmarks. For single core, the 5nm M1 beats previous generation 7nm x86 handily.

For the current generation (which is almost impossible to buy) it's a push.

For multi-core workloads (mostly niche use cases) high core count processors perform better.

I assume when the M1x comes out, it will similarly dominate the multi-core workloads, if it does have the rumored 32 cores.