Apple M2 vs. AMD Rembrandt vs. Intel Alder Lake Linux Benchmarks

Written by Michael Larabel in Computers on 9 August 2022 at 01:30 PM EDT. Page 11 of 15. 211 Comments.
MacBook Air M2 macOS vs. Asahi Linux
MacBook Air M2 macOS vs. Asahi Linux
MacBook Air M2 macOS vs. Asahi Linux
MacBook Air M2 macOS vs. Asahi Linux
MacBook Air M2 macOS vs. Asahi Linux
MacBook Air M2 macOS vs. Asahi Linux
MacBook Air M2 macOS vs. Asahi Linux
MacBook Air M2 macOS vs. Asahi Linux
MacBook Air M2 macOS vs. Asahi Linux

The cryptsetup benchmark results were mixed for the Apple performance on Asahi Linux.

MacBook Air M2 macOS vs. Asahi Linux
MacBook Air M2 macOS vs. Asahi Linux
MacBook Air M2 macOS vs. Asahi Linux
MacBook Air M2 macOS vs. Asahi Linux

The Tensorflow Lite performance with making sole use of the CPU and not the Apple Silicon Neural Engines saw mixed results. In some of the benchmarks the Apple Silicon was the fastest while in other intense workloads were more instances of the M2 on Linux falling behind the M1.

MacBook Air M2 macOS vs. Asahi Linux
MacBook Air M2 macOS vs. Asahi Linux

ASTC texture compression with the astcenc software from Arm was another example of the M2 performing worse than the M1 on Linux.


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