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Why does the M2 have such a low CPU benchmark? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I compared the M2 with several other CPUs (using cpubenchmark.net) that are in the same money-range and the M2 has a shockingly low score compared to other CPUs. For example, while the Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz scored 15416, the AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS scored 28917 and the Intel Core i7-13650HX 32119.

I don't know how reliable these benchmarks are, but I wasn't expecting M2 to be so bad. Am I missing something or? I wanted to buy a Macbook air M2 16GB 256GB, since I keep hearing how awesome it is, but now I'm not sure. Someone pls explain.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

How many cores do the comparisons have? What is the test testing? The Intel has 14 cores that’s almost double and runs at 4.9 GHz. Of course if it’s single core testing it doesn’t matter how many total cores.

However that being said it all depends on the tasks you want to do. Apple software is written to take advantage is apple silicon so it’s designed to work better on those CPUs.

Comparing to a windows CPU isn’t really valid in the end.