[HN Gopher] Apple M4 Mac Mini with macOS vs. Intel / AMD with Ub...
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       Apple M4 Mac Mini with macOS vs. Intel / AMD with Ubuntu Linux
       Performance
        
       Author : 2OEH8eoCRo0
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2024-11-13 18:35 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | menaerus wrote:
       | So ... performance-wise results seem to be quite apart from
       | Intel/AMD?
        
         | favorited wrote:
         | They're quite different product lines, serving different
         | markets. The heatsink you'd need to cool something like the
         | 9800X3D would be the size of the Mac mini itself. The Intel
         | Core Ultra 9 285K costs roughly the same as the entire M4 mini,
         | has twice as many cores (4x as many threads), and its
         | advertised base power is twice the M4's maximum.
         | 
         | There's nothing wrong with comparing them, but they don't seem
         | to be in the same market.
        
           | menaerus wrote:
           | What's the market for Mac minis if not desktop nor laptop?
        
       | hu3 wrote:
       | M4 raw performance compilation from the article for my future
       | self.
       | 
       | Sorted by result.
       | 
       | Note: M4 wins by a landslide when it comes to perf/watt but
       | performs poorly in terms of raw performance for these benchmarks.
       | 
       | Note to self: Keep working with a beefy x86 workstation because
       | time is valuable.
       | 
       | FLAC encoding: best
       | 
       | Compiling FFmpeg: average
       | 
       | Compiling LLVM: average
       | 
       | C-Ray 2.0 1080p: average
       | 
       | C-Ray 2.0 4k: average
       | 
       | Zstd compression: second worst
       | 
       | Zstd decompression: second worst
       | 
       | 7-Zip compression: worst
       | 
       | 7-Zip decompression: worst
       | 
       | Appleseed 2.0: worst
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       | V-RAY 6.0: worst
       | 
       | IndigoBench: worst
       | 
       | QuantLib: worst
       | 
       | Apache HTTP Server: worst
       | 
       | DuckDB: worst
       | 
       | PyBench: worst
       | 
       | x265: worst
       | 
       | Kavazaar 2.2: worst
       | 
       | AVIF encoding: worst
       | 
       | JPEG-XL encoding: worst
        
         | thejazzman wrote:
         | > Keep working with a beefy x86 workstation
         | 
         | Instead of the cheapest, entry level alternative? How is this
         | even remotely comparable?
        
         | attentive wrote:
         | This compares laptop level power budget vs beefy desktops.
         | 
         | They should include a picture of m4 mini and intel/amd desktops
         | side-by-side.
         | 
         | Intel(r) Core(tm) Ultra 9 285K CPU alone costs the same as m4
         | mini. Its base/turbo power is 125/250W while m4 seems to be
         | 11/15W.
        
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