The Mac mini DTK using ARM processors suffered serious performance degradation due to core limitations and platform efficiency degradation. However, on July 24, it was reported that 9to5mac, the foreign media, released the latest ARM version of the Mac, which ran its full blood, mercilessly crushing Microsoft Qualcomm's co processor SQ1 and its own MacBook Air.

Apple released Apple Silicon on WWDC 2020 on June 23. It is expected that the Intel processor will be transferred to the self-developed processor based on ARM architecture within two years. At the same time, it also released the Mac mini DTK (Developer Transition Kit Developer Transfer Kit) for developers, which is equipped with the A12Z processor used on the iPad Pro.

At the beginning of July, some developers used GeekBench for performance testing. At that time, the Mac mini DTK used Rosetta 2 to score points because the Mac did not have the GeekBench version supported by the native ARM. This lost 20-30% of its performance. Secondly, it only opened four cores, so it only played 60% - 75% of the performance. But even so, its score is about 800 points for single core and 2700 points for multi core, and the residual blood can be slightly better than the Surface Pro X (equipped with the SQ1 processor cooperated by Qualcomm and Microsoft).  

The latest GeekBench 5 Pro test chart released by 9to5mac this time is a true native benchmark test, and the performance is not affected by virtualization. The result reached the score of single core 1098 and multi-core 4555. Although it is still slightly lower than the A12Z iPad Pro, the gap is within the range of error and physique.

Interestingly, GeekBench still recognizes it as the second generation iPad Pro of the 11 inch version, and the system also displays iOS 14. It only has 16GB of memory, which also reserves some dignity for this desktop. In addition, the GPU performance of A12Z has also exceeded that of the Vega 6 and Intel i7-1065G7 on the AMD R5 4500U, which is really strong.

The full blooded ARM Mac Mini naturally crushed the Microsoft Surface Pro X, and it even surpassed its own entry-level MacBook Air. You should know that although A12Z is strong, it is the product of the previous generation of Apple and the old process of 7nm. It is expected that the ARM version of MacBook, which is expected to appear at the end of the year, will not be based on the latest A14, but at least will be based on A13. It will also be based on the 5nm process. The thermal power consumption limit will also be better than now, and the performance performance will be more worthy of expectation.

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