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

The M2 performed well at mining Monero on the CPU for those curious...

Across a wide range of OpenJDK Java workloads, the Apple M2 (and M1) performed extremely well. In these OpenJDK Java workloads on Asahi Linux with the M2 MacBook Air, the new Apple device was often trading blows with these AMD Rembrandt/Cezanne and Intel Alder Lake laptops. In a few cases though the M1/M2 were much slower.