

UPDATE-2: Here's a video that compares M1 chip with the latest Intel 11th generation chips in laptop chassis, and Intel's chip has lower performance in laptop chassis despite being its latest generation. Also, from another article here, it doesn't look like Intel is able to pull a 10-20% better performance over the board (per "generation"), and to the contrary its newer generation CPU design seems to have done a tradeoff to improve some applications performance at the expense of others.


This is why the performance of Intel chip in top-of-the-line 16 inch MacBook Pro from 2019 reported in comment to this answer (look below) looks worse than a Q'3 2015 Intel chip.

Laptop's with Intel CPUs are traditionally clocked with a lower base frequency, and can enter into "turbo" mode for much shorter periods of time. UPDATE-1: We don't know if this 0.20s number is from a desktop with more big heat sink or from laptop. If there is a consistent 10-20% improvement in performance of Intel chips per generation, one would guess that the latest 11th generation Intel chip should finish this test in around 0.10s (though one cannot really say without testing, and as can be seen in updates below, it seems unlikely). As of writing this post, Intel has recently released their 11th generation chips. And that is Intel's discontinued 6th generation chip from Q'3 2015 as per their website. Lualatex bench.tex 3.00s user 0.41s system 99% cpu 3.431 totalĪs can be seen from the results page, the best performing latex numbers are from Intel's chip with specs: Core i7-6700K, 4200MHz (Turbo), 8MB 元, Debian Jessie (64-bit) 0.200Īt 0.20s it outperforms Apple M1 chip's 0.35s in this very short benchmark test. Xelatex bench.tex 1.60s user 0.34s system 110% cpu 1.769 total Pdflatex bench.tex 1.08s user 0.15s system 99% cpu 1.237 total Latex bench.tex 0.64s user 0.10s system 98% cpu 0.752 total Lualatex bench.tex 1.24s user 0.03s system 99% cpu 1.279 totalĢ014 Intel based MacBook Pro specs and results: MacbookPro Retina 13in, Mid 2014 Xelatex bench.tex 0.72s user 0.04s system 107% cpu 0.714 total Pdflatex bench.tex 0.53s user 0.02s system 99% cpu 0.549 total Latex bench.tex 0.35s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 0.364 total I repeated the same steps on Apple's new ARM based M1 Mac mini and my old Intel based MacBook Pro (relevant specs below), with all the following engines: latex, pdflatex, xelatex, and lualatex.Ģ020 Apple Silicon M1 Mac mini specs and results (using ARM binaries): Mac mini M1, 2020 The steps are mentioned on the benchmark page. Upon researching internet for a latex benchmark and a site that maintains/publishes benchmark results, I found one: benchmark, and its corresponding results page. It's not as simple an answer, and I'll divide my answer in two parts.
