Running some benchmarks on econometric packages. Mainly least squares regression and data manipulations. On my 2016 MacBook Pro program takes 3:45.92. On this M1 it takes 5:07.61. Unbelievable! WHAT a disappointment.
Are these econometric packages Mac applications that are Apple-Silicon-native?
If you are running macOS/Intel applications using Rosetta 2 translation, there will be some overhead (especially the first time you run them, when Rosetta is translating the machine code). Rosetta 2 translation is pretty good – but I don't know how well it translates machine code that might have been using specialized instructions.
If you are running Wintel applications, inside Windows' Intel emulation/translation, inside Windows for ARM, inside a Parallels or VMware Fusion virtual machine, then you are piling on one layer of overhead after another.
Are these econometric packages Mac applications that are Apple-Silicon-native?
If you are running macOS/Intel applications using Rosetta 2 translation, there will be some overhead (especially the first time you run them, when Rosetta is translating the machine code). Rosetta 2 translation is pretty good – but I don't know how well it translates machine code that might have been using specialized instructions.
If you are running Wintel applications, inside Windows' Intel emulation/translation, inside Windows for ARM, inside a Parallels or VMware Fusion virtual machine, then you are piling on one layer of overhead after another.
What kind of M1 MacBook do you have? The base M1 is not a professional chip, that's why the M1 Max and pro are there. The I7 is a professional chip. So that can be the difference, it is not entirely fair to compare a base M1 to an I7. A base M1 should be compared to an I3 or I5 at the max Otherwise it is a bit like, and we have a saying for that in my country: comparing apples and pears. You cannot compare things that are not alike in basis
Second, is the setup further the same? The same amount of Ram? The same GPU memory?
I have the M1 max. 16 inch macbook pro with 64 GB memory. The 2016 MacBook had 16 GB memory.
MacBook M1 computing performance slower than 2016 MacBook i7
