It was inevitable. Despite Apple’s NDAs, some recipients of the Developer Transition Kit have uploaded scores to Geekbench (albeit only x86 benchmarks run under Rosetta so far).
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Looks really good. It’s using a nearly 2-year-old chip (not bound for new Macs) that Apple underclocked by 100Mhz, running a development beta, running an Intel benchmark in Rosetta, in which apparently only 4 out of the chip’s 8 cores were utilized, and the results are still faster than Microsoft’s native ARM machine results.
This strongly suggests that a new chip fully utilized, on a finalized and tweaked macOS version, may end up being quite fast at running Intel Mac apps.
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Craig Federighi barely containing his enthusiasm about the upcoming Mac processors.
“It gives you a sense of what our silicon team can do without even trying”
