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Core i7-930 vs ARM M1


Description
The i7-930 is based on Westmere architecture while the M1 is based on -.

Using the multithread performance as a reference, the i7-930 gets a score of 69.4 k points while the M1 gets 142.3 k points.

Summarizing, the M1 is 2.1 times faster than the i7-930 . To get a proper comparison between both models, take a look to the data shown below.

Specs
CPUID
106a5
f4a
Core
Bloomfield
-
Architecture
Westmere
Base frecuency
2.8 GHz
3.2 GHz
Boost frecuency
3.067 GHz
3.2 GHz
Socket
LGA 1366
-
Cores/Threads
4/8
4/4
TDP
130 W
- W
Cache L1 (d+i)
32+32 kB
- kB
Cache L2
256 kB
- kB
Cache L3
8192 kB
- kB
Date
February 2010
January 1900
Mean monothread perf.
17.58k points
41.44k points
Mean multithread perf.
69.39k points
142.32k points

SSE3 optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode I (SSE) is optimized for the use of SIMD instructions with 128 bits register and the SSE set up to version 3. Nearly every modern CPU has support for this mode.
Monothread
i7-930
M1
Test#1 (Integers)
7.28k
9.46k (x1.3)
Test#2 (FP)
4.82k
24.42k (x5.07)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
2.86k
3.76k (x1.31)
Test#1 (Memory)
2.62k
3.8k (x1.45)
TOTAL
17.58k
41.44k (x2.36)

Multithread

i7-930

M1
Test#1 (Integers)
28.09k
34.73k (x1.24)
Test#2 (FP)
21.62k
87.52k (x4.05)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
14.83k
13.74k (x0.93)
Test#1 (Memory)
4.85k
6.34k (x1.31)
TOTAL
69.39k
142.32k (x2.05)

Performance/W
i7-930
M1
Test#1 (Integers)
216 points/W