Apple M4 Mac Mini With macOS vs. Intel / AMD With Ubuntu Linux Performance

Written by Michael Larabel in Computers on 13 November 2024 at 01:10 PM EST. Page 4 of 7. 94 Comments.

With the C-Ray CPU-based ray-tracer the Apple M4 Mac Mini 10-core performance was just ahead of the 8-core Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor but doing so while sipping power in comparison to the Intel/AMD CPUs.

With the Appleseed renderer the M4 Mac Mini performance was behind the AMD/Intel CPUs but in this case Appleseed is still relying on x86_64 Rosetta emulation on macOS with Apple Silicon. Even so the the results are rather favorable for the Apple M4 when factoring the power efficiency.

The proprietary V-RAY renderer on the Apple Mac Mini M4 with macOS was slower than the Intel/AMD Linux environments but with the M4 delivering easily the best performance-per-Watt.

It was a similar story with the proprietary IndigoBench renderer except for power efficiency the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 was matching the Apple M4.

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