Apple’s M1 MacBook Air smashes Windows into ARM in new definitions

Hosted by PCWorld, The Evaluation Microsoft Surface Pro X against the new M1 MacBook Air, Two devices connecting ARM processors.

As mentioned by the release, there are some precious ARM-based Windows boxes, from which only two chips are selected – Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8cx and Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 – to power the site. The Surface Pro X features Microsoft’s derivative SQ1 and SQ2 processors designed in conjunction with Qualcomm.

PCWorld’s Windows Testbed relied on the first generation SQ1, although any gains from the most recent SQ2 are considered insignificant.

The MacBook Air crushed the Surface Pro X in single and multiple scores on the Geekbench 5 tests. Apple’s new laptop single core process scored 1730 points, beating the Surface score by just 1000 points. The multi-core test revealed an even bigger imbalance, with the MacBook Air clocking 7454 points with 2734 points on the surface.

Maxon’s Cinebench results in single- and multi-core scores for M1 landing at 1496 and 6838, respectively, surpassing Surface Pro X’s 371 and 1604.

Moving to the open source video transcoding tool handbrake, the MacBook Air finished transcoding 12 minutes of 4K video to 1080p H.265 file six times faster than the surface.

It should be noted that Microsoft’s 64-bit x86 prototype is still in beta. However, even with an integrated software development effort, Windows at ARM does not have the hardware chops to catch Apple’s MacOS and M1 integration.

The M1, the first line of locally designed Mac chips, debuted in November and now powers the new MacBook Air. 13 inch MacBook Pro And Mac Mini. Initial benchmarks, and Of AppleInsider Own reviews have revealed the burning compute speed and extremely high power efficiency compared to the traditional Intel models.

With high performance chip designs on the horizon, Apple silicone May soon mark a paradigm shift in personal computing.