Apple is in the stages of switching all of its iMac and MacBook lineup from Intel's x86 CPUs to its own developed-in-house ARM chips, aiming to be a serious contender when it comes to performance. According to the latest PassMark single-thread performance chart, it looks like Apple’s already achieved this – at least on paper. The tech company's M1 processor takes second place behind Intel’s Core i9-11900K, with a score just as high as many of the models in our best gaming CPU guide.
The Apple M1's score of 3,550 beats Intel's i7 11700K (3,542) by a smidge, and also AMD's high-end Ryzen 7 5800X (3,506). It's particularly impressive when you consider the M1 is designed as a low-power processor for mobile devices such as laptops. Who knows how much performance we could see out of future Apple Silicon chips designed for desktop use?
Of course, an M1-based MacBook still isn't a replacement for the best gaming laptop by any stretch of the imagination as the best PC games have been designed around x86 processors.
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