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What is tempting about this? This benchmark shows that the M1 performs marginally worse than the low-end sku from 3 generations ago.

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No, it shows it performs better? Go look again at the numbers in the linked comparison. Also calling it low-end is misleading, the 1050Ti was solidly mid-tier, and also a dedicated graphics card used in desktop machines. This is comparing it to integrated graphics in a lightweight laptop (the M1 in the recently announced MacBook Air).

1060 is budget mid-tier, I don't really see how you could say the 1050ti is anything but low-end when looking at either performance or price

We are talking about a half-inch thick ultrabook with 18 hours of battery life here.

The idea is that this can do the same as what was historically in a thick and heavy gaming laptop that got 4 hours of battery life in use..is very impressive. It firmly destroys all SKUs of the 15 inch MBP

I'm a graphics engineer. It's so low end at this point I honestly dread benchmarking on it.

If you really are a graphics engineer you'll know that the person you're replying to is absolutely right. The performance on this integrated gpu is outstanding and outperforms a dedicated desktop gpu that's ~2 years old on 10W of power.

You can run Witcher 3 on a 1050 Ti with a reasonably useful graphics level and framerate. You can't really do that with any other laptop integrated CPU/GPU.

For mac users these numbers are amazing lol

lol what's hilarious is the numbers probably go up just by installing windows and using the actual first-party nvidia driver.

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