PC World - USA (2021-03)

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Reviews & Ratings

TESTED IN PCWORLD LABS

WE PUT HARDWARE & SOFTWARE

THROUGH RIGOROUS TESTING

W

e’ve already tested AMD’s

Ryzen 5000 mobile (go.

pcworld.com/r5mb)

against Intel’s current Core

i7 chips in laptops, and Ryzen easily wins. But

what everyone really wants to know is how it

stacks up against Apple’s impressive M 1

silicon chip in the new MacBook Pro.

The M1 is a 5nm, TSMC-built chip based

on the Arm architecture—a hard pivot by

Apple after ending its 15-year relationship

with Intel. Despite the performance hit of

dealing with translating x86 instructions to

Arm, when we tested the MacBook Pro M 1

against Intel 10th-gen and 11th-gen CPUs and

AMD’s Ryzen 4000 (go.pcworld.com/m1te),

we were genuinely impressed.

Cribbing from all those performance

results, we decided to compare benchmarks

run by our sibling site, Macworld, as well as

Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 5000:

MacBook Pro and Asus ROG Flow

X13, compared

Apple’s M1 has impressed everyone, but so has the Ryzen 5000. BY GORDON MAH UNG