Apple M2 On Linux Performance Against AMD Zen 4 Mobile SoCs

Written by Michael Larabel in Computers on 21 July 2023 at 05:00 PM EDT. Page 3 of 7. 98 Comments.
Xmrig benchmark with settings of Variant: Monero, Hash Count: 1M. ROG Ally - Z1 Extreme, Performance was the fastest.
Xmrig benchmark with settings of Variant: Wownero, Hash Count: 1M. ROG Ally - Z1 Extreme, Performance was the fastest.

The AMD Zen 4 hardware did much better than the M2 with the Xmrig CPU miner.

LibRaw benchmark with settings of Post-Processing Benchmark. Apple M2 MacBook Air was the fastest.

The M2 racked up a win with the LibRAW RAW image decoding library.

TSCP benchmark with settings of AI Chess Performance. ROG Ally - Z1 Extreme, Performance was the fastest.

For the multi-threaded TSCP chess engine the performance of the M2 was akin to the Z1 Extreme in the ROG Ally's default balanced mode.

John The Ripper benchmark with settings of Test: bcrypt. ROG Ally - Z1 Extreme, Performance was the fastest.
John The Ripper benchmark with settings of Test: WPA PSK. ROG Ally - Z1 Extreme, Performance was the fastest.
John The Ripper benchmark with settings of Test: Blowfish. ROG Ally - Z1 Extreme, Performance was the fastest.

The Zen 4 CPU cores performed much better for John The Ripper.


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