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Apple M2 vs. AMD Rembrandt vs. Intel Alder Lake Linux Benchmarks
Overall I was pleased with the CPU performance in these benchmarks between Asahi Linux and macOS. Granted, none of these benchmarks make use of the M2's Neural Engine or GPU, which are unsupported at this point under Linux. But when looking at the raw CPU benchmark performance, Asahi Linux was in surprisingly good shape for their experimental M2 build being less than one month old.
Now that we know the M2 CPU performance on Asahi Linux isn't wildly bad or strangely different from macOS, let's move on to looking at the Asahi/Arch Linux performance between the various devices under test.