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Originally Posted by Uncle Peter
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020...ransition-kit/
Main things to note:
- The developer kit is a Mac Mini running a hobbled A12X SOC from the iPad Pro (half of the cores disabled)
- Benchmarks are from non-native (x86) Geekbench tests via the Rosetta 2 interpreter
- Results: 20% slower benchmarks than an entry level i3 Macbook Air on single thread performance
- 38% faster for multi threading
Which is not too bad really if you factor in the fact there's a performance penalty associated with not running native ARM code.
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That's Apple clearly capping the developer unit because they knew people would benchmark it. They didn't just disable the cores, they seem to have underclocked it as well