Comment by jghn
10 hours ago
Anyone know how this would compare to an original M1 Air? Both in terms of performance and also capability. My primary use case for my air is web browsing and similar. But I do use other things at times. I know they're both arm processors, but are there things that ne can do an M1 that won't work on this?
The A18 Pro is roughly 30% faster in single-thread, and about equal in multi-core performance compared to the M1. The iGPU is also superior, and for AI it has 38 TOPS vs 11 in the M1. The A18 Pro should also be a lot more power efficient.
a18 scores better than m1 in single thread benchmark and about the same in multi thread
https://browser.geekbench.com/ios_devices/iphone-16
https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-air-late-2020
This comparinson might not be fair, since we are talking about an iPhone and a Macbook. We need to wait for Neo's benchmarks. A lot of things can change from the phone factor to the laptop factor, from power supply, to thermals, to dedicated data lanes
Sure but it's very unlikely that it would perform worse in a laptop than in a phone, thermals are better, power supplies are beefier, batteries much larger, &c.
Hard to know relative performance before we get benchmarks. Aside from that anything that runs on M1 should run on this in the same way. In fact, the processor on Neo should support slightly more modern software since it implements ARMv9 [1] agains M1 ARMv8 [2]
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A18
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_M1
The A18 Pro has been around since September 2024, we have plenty of benchmarks.
Not on laptops no, we should expect much better numbers on a full fledged laptop
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They're pretty much equivalent.
They are not. The A18 Pro has much better single threaded performance (similar multi-core performance).
Unless you are going to build software projects, a difference in single-threaded performance is going to be much more noticeable.