Apple M3 series smashes past Raptor Lake and Dragon Range to dominate PassMark's laptop CPU single-thread chart

[Redaktion]

Four members of the Apple M3 series have landed on the PassMark benchmark site and have immediately secured the top four positions in the single-thread performance chart for laptop CPUs. The Apple M3, 11-core M3 Pro, 12-core M3 Pro, and 16-core M3 Max have sailed past Intel's Raptor Lake mobile parts and AMD's Zen 4 Dragon Range APUs.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-M3-series-smashes-past-Raptor-Lake-and-Dragon-Range-to-dominate-PassMark-s-laptop-CPU-single-thread-chart.767046.0.html

[Neenyah]

https://imgur.com/vxQUTgk

12% less single thread or 42-43% more multi thread, hmm... Choices, choices... 🤔 Not.

[jdrch]

12% less single thread or 42-43% more multi thread, hmm... Choices, choices... 🤔 Not.

Yeah especially when the top SKU gets absolutely mopped by the competition in gaming benchmarks, which typically favor single thread performance.

[Neenyah]

Yeah especially when the top SKU gets absolutely mopped by the competition in gaming benchmarks, which typically favor single thread performance.

Very true. However though, luckily I'd say, trends are changing lately but sadly not because of good game optimization but instead of devs' laziness (most of them, not all) to optimize so players basically have to "bruteforce" the game with many CPU cores. And in games such as Counter Strike 2 even a still very capable i5 11600K 6/12 CPU is giving less performance than a laptop i7 1260P 12/16 despite both having pretty much identical single thread performance (0.6% difference on Passmark) - those efficiency cores and full 16 threads in the 1260P are playing significant role especially with the new volumetric smoke (barely and fps drop on the 1260P and about 9% drop with the 11600K, despite the 11600K being paired with a 3070 Ti while the 1260P is using the same 3070 Ti via eGPU).