Apple M1 vs. AMD Renoir vs. Intel Tiger Lake Quick Apple M1 macOS reference points against Intel Tiger Lake and AMD Renoir Linux laptops by Michael Larabel. ,,"Core i7 1165G7","Ryzen 5 4500U","M1 Mac Mini - Rosetta","M1 Mac Mini","ryzen 3600","4800U Lenovo Test 1","testbaseload" Processor,,Intel Core i7-1165G7 @ 4.70GHz (4 Cores / 8 Threads),AMD Ryzen 5 4500U @ 2.38GHz (6 Cores),VirtualApple @ 2.40GHz (8 Cores),Apple (8 Cores),AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core @ 3.60GHz (6 Cores / 12 Threads),AMD Ryzen 7 4800U @ 1.80GHz (8 Cores / 16 Threads),4 x QEMU Virtual 2.5+ (4 Cores) Motherboard,,Dell 0GG9PT (1.0.3 BIOS),LENOVO LNVNB161216 (EECN20WW BIOS),Apple Mac mini,Apple Mac mini,MSI MAG B550 TOMAHAWK (MS-7C91) v2.0 (A.30 BIOS),LENOVO LNVNB161216 (DMCN34WW BIOS),Red Hat KVM (1.11.0-2.el7 BIOS) Chipset,,Intel Tiger Lake-LP,AMD Renoir Root Complex,,,AMD Starship/Matisse,AMD Renoir Root Complex,Intel 440FX 82441FX PMC Memory,,16GB,16GB,8GB,8GB,32GB,16GB,24GB Disk,,Kioxia KBG40ZNS256G NVMe 256GB,256GB SK hynix HFM256GDHTNI-87A0B,229GB,229GB,500GB Corsair Force MP600 + 3 x 500GB Samsung SSD 850 + 480GB INTEL SSDSC2BW48,1024GB SAMSUNG MZVLB1T0HBLR-000L2,21GB QEMU HDD + 805GB QEMU HDD Graphics,,Intel UHD 3GB (1300MHz),AMD Renoir 512MB (1500/400MHz),Apple M1,Apple M1,Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 550 640SP / 560/560X 4GB (1300/1750MHz),AMD Renoir 512MB (1750/400MHz),Cirrus Logic GD 5446 Audio,,Realtek ALC289,AMD Device 1637,,,AMD Baffin HDMI/DP,AMD Device 1637, Network,,Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX201,Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe,,,Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 + Realtek RTL8125 2.5GbE,Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200,2 x Red Hat Virtio device Monitor,,,,ASUS VP28U,ASUS VP28U,2 x SM2443DW + DUAL-DVI,Mi Monitor, OS,,Ubuntu 20.10,Ubuntu 20.10,macOS 11.0,macOS 11.0,Arch rolling,Ubuntu 20.10,Ubuntu 20.04 Kernel,,5.9.2-050902-generic (x86_64),5.9.1-050901-generic (x86_64),20.1.0 (x86_64),20.1.0 (arm64),5.9.11-arch2-1 (x86_64),5.8.0-33-generic (x86_64),5.4.0-100-generic (x86_64) Desktop,,GNOME Shell 3.38.1,GNOME Shell 3.38.1,,,KDE Plasma 5.20.4,GNOME Shell 3.38.1, Display Server,,X Server 1.20.9,X Server 1.20.9,,,X Server 1.20.10,X Server 1.20.9 + Wayland,X Server 1.20.13 Display Driver,,modesetting 1.20.9,amdgpu 19.1.0,,,,amdgpu 19.1.0, OpenGL,,4.6 Mesa 20.2.1,4.6 Mesa 21.0.0-devel (git-802fabd 2020-11-18 groovy-oibaf-ppa) (LLVM 11.0.0),,,4.6 Mesa 20.2.3 (LLVM 11.0.0),4.6 Mesa 20.2.1 (LLVM 11.0.0), OpenCL,,OpenCL 3.0,OpenCL 2.1 AMD-APP (3180.7),OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 18 2020 13:43:44),OpenCL 1.2 (Oct 18 2020 13:43:44),OpenCL 2.1 AMD-APP (3188.4) + OpenCL 2.0 AMD-APP (3188.4),, Vulkan,,1.2.145,1.2.145,,,,1.2.131,1.1.182 Compiler,,GCC 10.2.0,GCC 10.2.0,GCC 12.0.0 + Clang 12.0.0 + Xcode 12.2,GCC 12.0.0 + Clang 12.0.0 + Xcode 12.2,GCC 10.2.0 + Clang 11.0.0Target: + LLVM 11.0.0,GCC 10.2.0,GCC 9.3.0 File-System,,ext4,ext4,APFS,APFS,btrfs,ext4,xfs Screen Resolution,,1920x1200,1920x1080,3840x2160,3840x2160,4479x1440,3440x1440,800x600 System Layer,,,,,,,,KVM QEMU ,,"Core i7 1165G7","Ryzen 5 4500U","M1 Mac Mini - Rosetta","M1 Mac Mini","ryzen 3600","4800U Lenovo Test 1","testbaseload" "Renaissance - Test: Savina Reactors.IO (ms)",LIB,19389.494,12838.031,9668.361,,9178.416,11436.483,25445.152 "Selenium - Benchmark: Basemark - Browser: Google Chrome (Overall Score)",HIB,999.09,810.49,,747.72,1320.50,881.40, "Selenium - Benchmark: WebXPRT - Browser: Google Chrome (Score)",HIB,279,202,,199,273,196, "Appleseed - Scene: Emily (sec)",LIB,1224.092434,928.990927,752.887524,,478.543042,631.40193, "NAMD - ATPase Simulation - 327,506 Atoms (days/ns)",LIB,5.67505,4.42972,3.55882,,2.90388,3.57803,9.72421 "Crypto++ - Test: Keyed Algorithms (MiB/s)",HIB,761.738319,638.280490,438.559991,,674.693175,687.425848,232.552016 "Selenium - Benchmark: Basemark - Browser: Firefox (Overall Score)",HIB,797.01,495.31,,721.95,884.40,, "Java 2D Microbenchmark - Rendering Test: Vector Graphics Rendering (Units/sec)",HIB,3025959.7334028,3959525.3632469,6694455.3556330,,5278378.8901415,4564771.9492984, "C-Ray - Total Time - 4K, 16 Rays Per Pixel (sec)",LIB,212.533,116.173,252.397,137.221,84.385,91.546,327.848 "BRL-CAD - VGR Performance Metric (VGR Performance Metric)",HIB,,55085,69930,,94904,81727, "Java 2D Microbenchmark - Rendering Test: Image Rendering (Units/sec)",HIB,6425654.9628413,5799277.7914828,6616497.3323001,,13952867.254997,6505675.4004901, "Crypto++ - Test: Integer + Elliptic Curve Public Key Algorithms (MiB/s)",HIB,5737.477129,4979.775149,3315.330190,,5296.418847,5321.238109,2284.167554 "Appleseed - Scene: Disney Material (sec)",LIB,724.752425,488.824244,377.988431,,301.03949,368.208535, "Appleseed - Scene: Material Tester (sec)",LIB,678.128161,492.144765,478.937211,,272.615346,332.011136, "Selenium - Benchmark: CanvasMark - Browser: Firefox (Score)",HIB,14872,9621,,13965,15526,16122, "Hierarchical INTegration - Test: FLOAT (QUIPs)",HIB,570023973.08922,347198111.48945,554583835.63522,,362629809.13625,373582231.08163,247613008.66277 "Stockfish - Total Time (Nodes/s)",HIB,7709239,11328633,15319002,,20706959,16725862,4672953 "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 4K - Video Preset: Very Fast (FPS)",HIB,4.45,7.29,3.08,3.67,12.3,9.34,0.74 "Basis Universal - Settings: UASTC Level 3 (sec)",LIB,174.188,113.836,104.475,,75.576,74.558,306.030 "Selenium - Benchmark: CanvasMark - Browser: Google Chrome (Score)",HIB,21354,11895,,13783,24035,17802, "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p - Video Preset: Medium (FPS)",HIB,7.39,11.86,4.61,5.51,18.64,15.27,1.22 "Zstd Compression - Compression Level: 19 (MB/s)",HIB,22.7,16.1,24.9,,32.1,22.8,9.85 "Embree - Binary: Pathtracer - Model: Crown (FPS)",HIB,3.3431,3.9659,3.7754,,8.6598,6.7577, "Fhourstones - Complex Connect-4 Solving (Kpos / sec)",HIB,13218.1,11580.6,16468.9,20671.8,15028.0,11506.3,6970.6 "Darktable - Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,,,,,,,31.057 "XZ Compression - Compressing ubuntu-16.04.3-server-i386.img, Compression Level 9 (sec)",LIB,60.493,70.377,58.111,49.304,36.625,45.757,156.269 "Timed HMMer Search - Pfam Database Search (sec)",LIB,101.914,121.824,117.030,,95.113,134.209,181.879 "Basis Universal - Settings: UASTC Level 2 (sec)",LIB,86.712,56.676,54.174,,39.613,35.593,147.102 "OSPray - Demo: NASA Streamlines - Renderer: Path Tracer (FPS)",HIB,1.14,1.40,1.56,,2.92,2.23, "IndigoBench - Acceleration: CPU - Scene: Bedroom (M samples/s)",HIB,0.515,0.735,0.881,,1.493,1.174, "Sunflow Rendering System - Global Illumination + Image Synthesis (sec)",LIB,2.948,2.068,2.083,,1.283,1.669,6.947 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Sharpen (Iterations/min)",HIB,48,78,19,,97,90, "LuxCoreRender - Scene: DLSC (M samples/sec)",HIB,0.55,0.73,0.90,,1.29,1.06,0.34 "Embree - Binary: Pathtracer ISPC - Model: Crown (FPS)",HIB,3.9802,3.8205,3.8613,,8.3401,6.3769, "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 4K - Video Preset: Ultra Fast (FPS)",HIB,8.24,13.22,6.76,7.03,22.46,16.77,1.62 "Selenium - Benchmark: StyleBench - Browser: Google Chrome (Runs / Minute)",HIB,42.1,31.3,,87.4,40.40,30.1, "Selenium - Benchmark: Speedometer - Browser: Firefox (Runs/min)",HIB,123,69.50,,100.6,140,67.1, "Embree - Binary: Pathtracer - Model: Asian Dragon (FPS)",HIB,3.9481,4.6530,4.4010,,9.6434,7.8817, "Embree - Binary: Pathtracer ISPC - Model: Asian Dragon (FPS)",HIB,5.1377,4.6391,4.7773,,9.5990,7.7839, "SQLite Speedtest - Timed Time - Size 1,000 (sec)",LIB,51.172,69.491,73.689,50.690,70.760,71.355,203.248 "Basis Universal - Settings: ETC1S (sec)",LIB,69.473,60.715,61.481,,51.480,49.331,156.081 "Selenium - Benchmark: Speedometer - Browser: Google Chrome (Runs/min)",HIB,161,105,,102,148.0,108, "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p - Video Preset: Ultra Fast (FPS)",HIB,34.21,53.07,27.10,28.18,85.29,62.12,6.45 "Selenium - Benchmark: StyleBench - Browser: Firefox (Runs / Minute)",HIB,90.9,56.1,,87.7,103,60.1, "Crypto++ - Test: Unkeyed Algorithms (MiB/s)",HIB,405.663657,340.044517,302.259103,,376.998868,372.233839,183.241766 "Java 2D Microbenchmark - Rendering Test: Text Rendering (Units/sec)",HIB,27218.369732229,13739.273493742,18138.649719128,,32577.826504776,11742.738249568, "Chaos Group V-RAY - Mode: CPU (Ksamples)",HIB,4717,5799,7384,,,, "IndigoBench - Acceleration: CPU - Scene: Supercar (M samples/s)",HIB,1.211,1.613,1.988,,3.178,2.491, "OSPray - Demo: Magnetic Reconnection - Renderer: SciVis (FPS)",HIB,6.81,4.12,3.87,,6.90,6.10, "LuxCoreRender - Scene: Rainbow Colors and Prism (M samples/sec)",HIB,0.60,0.83,0.90,,1.38,1.16,0.35 "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Enhanced (Iterations/min)",HIB,68,117,31,,160,148, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Resizing (Iterations/min)",HIB,353,600,153,,799,657, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: Rotate (Iterations/min)",HIB,1170,621,1040,,751,631, "GraphicsMagick - Operation: HWB Color Space (Iterations/min)",HIB,599,813,224,,1050,903, "Git - Time To Complete Common Git Commands (sec)",LIB,47.693,55.310,55.440,46.410,46.327,53.622,110.128 "LibRaw - Post-Processing Benchmark (Mpix/sec)",HIB,27.69,27.81,10.73,,37.17,33.05,15.22 "Geekbench - Test: CPU Multi Core (Score)",HIB,4870,4666,,5923,,, "Kvazaar - Video Input: Bosphorus 1080p - Video Preset: Very Fast (FPS)",HIB,18.71,29.86,12.75,15.03,48.05,33.72,3.08 "Primesieve - 1e12 Prime Number Generation (sec)",LIB,75.715,41.797,33.938,,29.920,37.491,93.269 "GEGL - Operation: Color Enhance (sec)",LIB,48.317,56.255,47.632,,50.140,, "AOBench - Size: 2048 x 2048 - Total Time (sec)",LIB,26.782,32.632,,21.533,30.827,30.674,54.302 "OSPray - Demo: San Miguel - Renderer: SciVis (FPS)",HIB,5.45,6.05,4.75,,10.14,8.29, "Java SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,2689.90,2835.35,2590.82,,2727.74,3248.00,1505.95 "WebP Image Encode - Encode Settings: Quality 100, Lossless, Highest Compression (Encode Time - sec)",LIB,37.349,46.827,37.923,,33.996,47.961,80.272 "LevelDB - Benchmark: Random Delete (us/Op)",LIB,24.648,31.857,30.279,,28.174,151.479,44.969 "OSPray - Demo: NASA Streamlines - Renderer: SciVis (FPS)",HIB,6.22,7.25,7.15,,14.56,11.34, "Botan - Test: AES-256 (MiB/s)",HIB,7800.489,765.945,4833.036,,5625.568,5720.304,135.882 "Geekbench - Test: CPU Single Core (Score)",HIB,1638,1149,,1329,,, "Timed MAFFT Alignment - Multiple Sequence Alignment - LSU RNA (sec)",LIB,9.717,15.797,36.242,11.891,10.431,14.330,19.123 "Darktable - Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,,,,,,,35.811 "7-Zip Compression - Compress Speed Test (MIPS)",HIB,22587,24272,31892,41836,46182,31819,10146 "Darktable - Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,,,,,,,34.422 "LevelDB - Benchmark: Sequential Fill (us/Op)",LIB,25.350,32.108,46.940,,29.639,137.627,42.241 "LevelDB - Benchmark: Sequential Fill (MB/s)",HIB,35.0,20.7,18.8,,44.8,12.8,10.4 "GEGL - Operation: Reflect (sec)",LIB,26.295,31.034,31.706,,29.345,, "PyBench - Total For Average Test Times (Milliseconds)",LIB,731,1000,,1493,981,936,2001 "SciMark - Computational Test: Composite (Mflops)",HIB,716.05,609.73,557.75,579.07,670.54,648.94,391.83 "Darktable - Test: Boat - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,16.920,16.522,10.335,,9.987,19.345, "WebP Image Encode - Encode Settings: Quality 100, Lossless (Encode Time - sec)",LIB,15.252,21.940,17.273,,16.313,22.309,42.055 "FLAC Audio Encoding - WAV To FLAC (sec)",LIB,7.500,8.717,12.629,28.309,7.881,7.859,22.172 "Selenium - Benchmark: WASM imageConvolute - Browser: Firefox (ms)",LIB,28.1,29.4,,28.7,28.6,27.4, "Botan - Test: Blowfish (MiB/s)",HIB,453.977,286.970,368.370,,457.988,464.408,280.280 "Botan - Test: Twofish (MiB/s)",HIB,374.650,251.283,291.511,,380.716,383.413,223.116 "PHPBench - PHP Benchmark Suite (Score)",HIB,984743,477789,420420,594928,663989,655404,351015 "Basis Universal - Settings: UASTC Level 0 (sec)",LIB,9.226,9.180,9.143,,7.927,7.748,21.125 "Darktable - Test: Masskrug - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,9.322,9.322,7.188,,5.645,6.971, "Darktable - Test: Server Room - Acceleration: CPU-only (sec)",LIB,7.300,6.659,5.704,,4.463,5.478, "GEGL - Operation: Crop (sec)",LIB,7.384,8.725,9.194,,7.362,, "NeatBench - Acceleration: All (FPS)",HIB,13.6,7.88,10.2,,14.3,7.98,4.95 "NeatBench - Acceleration: CPU (FPS)",HIB,13.5,7.83,10.1,,14.3,7.95,4.93 "LevelDB - Benchmark: Seek Random (us/Op)",LIB,5.947,3.099,10.050,,7.816,11.061,5.187 "GEGL - Operation: Scale (sec)",LIB,5.894,6.307,5.849,,4.631,, "LevelDB - Benchmark: Random Read (us/Op)",LIB,3.573,2.337,4.927,,5.446,7.732,3.378 "WebP Image Encode - Encode Settings: Quality 100, Highest Compression (Encode Time - sec)",LIB,6.329,7.917,6.836,,7.367,7.361,12.372 "Selenium - Benchmark: WASM imageConvolute - Browser: Google Chrome (ms)",LIB,28.2552,31.6018,,28.2,29.2490,28.8325, "LevelDB - Benchmark: Random Fill (us/Op)",LIB,21.950,33.784,53.400,,30.582,155.822,46.478 "LevelDB - Benchmark: Random Fill (MB/s)",HIB,40.3,19.7,16.5,,43.4,11.4,9.4 "libjpeg-turbo tjbench - Test: Decompression Throughput (Megapixels/sec)",HIB,213.766253,202.008410,148.845598,,213.502876,215.848397,103.093025 "LevelDB - Benchmark: Overwrite (us/Op)",LIB,21.925,33.795,53.243,,30.615,153.350,45.797 "LevelDB - Benchmark: Overwrite (MB/s)",HIB,40.3,19.6,16.6,,43.3,11.5,9.5 "WebP Image Encode - Encode Settings: Quality 100 (Encode Time - sec)",LIB,2.064,2.381,2.804,,2.255,2.256,4.277 "SciMark - Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply (Mflops)",HIB,799.73,729.82,512.06,575.17,758.17,766.67,458.60