There were actually some gaming tests running faster on MBA with 8 GPU cores compared to MBP - just dropped without any comments. Very strange indeed. M1 sample variation?

Hey, I expected them to pull off that useless detached fan trick in the Air again, looks like that didn't happen.

Quote from: Aman on December 07, 2020, 06:11:21
and they ran no GPU benchmarks or games
(which would be the most obvious way to capture the 7 core vs 8 core GPU difference).

There is 3DMark benchmark result in the article, showing no differences.

A 5nm chipset is sure to bump up the speed and the performance of the device by many folds. The long lasting battery and the display are really impressive features

Quote from: Aman on December 07, 2020, 06:11:21
Pretty pointless article since the only known difference between the M1's in both is the fan in the Macbook Pro, plus an additional GPU core.

A cinebench R23 run isn't probably long enough to highlight the long-term performance differences, and they ran no GPU benchmarks or games
(which would be the most obvious way to capture the 7 core vs 8 core GPU difference).

I'd like to think this is more like a teaser article. In their full review article, they always did Cinebench run loop for multiple times to see the sustained load. Try to check their latest MacBook Air review.

Pretty pointless article since the only known difference between the M1's in both is the fan in the Macbook Pro, plus an additional GPU core.

A cinebench R23 run isn't probably long enough to highlight the long-term performance differences, and they ran no GPU benchmarks or games
(which would be the most obvious way to capture the 7 core vs 8 core GPU difference).

Hmmmmmmmmm this looks suspicious. I was expecting a perfomance difference or something here