When an M1 Mac mini is faster than an M1 Pro: contention and core allocation
So if I understand correctly, M1 Pro has half the efficiency cores as the M1 (4 vs 2), and despite those cores running over double clock speed on the M1 Pro, the M1 Pro still takes longer to complete multi-threaded tasks at the lowest QoS (the QoS that limits threads to only ever execute on efficiency cores).<p>This is a nice test and good data, but it seems intuitively correct to me that things would work this way. I guess the unintuitive bit is "if you scale the QoS all the way back to minimum, regular M1 outperforms M1 Pro".<p>It would be interesting to see which one has the lower power usage during these tasks as well, given that regular M1 is a desktop machine (Mini in this case) and M1 Pro is a laptop.