Comparing Intel chips versus M chips

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Hi,

I've not been up to date with tech but trying to gauge the differences (benchmark/real life) between an Intel chip and the M chips.

The marketing from Apple is obviously great, and I do like Apple products I am just trying to gauge whether or not to get a second hand iMac 27 or potentially a 27 studio/mac combination *if* the improvement is significant enough.

For example, I am trying to compare the 3.8GHz 8‑core 10th-generation Intel Core i7 versus M1, M2 etc... is there a good overall benchmark that will give me a pretty good idea of just how much quicker it is?

Also the older iMacs have different graphics cards, is there a good go to benchmark that will give me a rough ballpark estimation on the comparison.

I used to have a good idea with benchmarks years ago, but its been a while!

Thanks
 
ChrisD. said:
There really is very little reason to choose an Intel Mac over Apple Silicone if it's a Mac you want.
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Purely a price point e.g. 27'' iMac 2020 around £1,000 verus that same combo (not entirely fair compairson) but brand new would be £2150 (studio display and base mac mini with 8gb).
 
ChrisD. said:
I believe no new OS for Intel Macs this year, and no security updates from 2025. Do check on that though.

There are alternate 5k screens such as LG Ultrafine if you don't want to pay Apple Tax. TBH as nice as the Studio Display is, it's not exactly cheap and you can get perfectly decent 4K monitors for under £500.
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Oh I see, thanks for the heads up.

I've done some research on the whole 4k monitor thing for Apple but it feels like a headache with the scaling... some saying it impacts performance, some saying it isn't as clear as 'retina' and so on.

AFAIK I could get a 27'' 4K and display it as 1920x1080 for the x2 scaling that MacOS does - would that give the quality I am after with the downside of less screen real estate?

Another issue is no monitors are glass covered, which is what I think helps the displays have such great depth.
 
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