Looking at Geekbench Browser, I found that the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 seems to be scoring an average of about 1076 single-core and 5662 for multi-core in Geekbench 5. Since we can’t get our hands on the physical Windows Dev Kit 2023 hardware just yet as Microsoft just made it first available this week for purchase we’ll have to use these Geekbench comparisons for now. What about compared to the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 though? Since Linux Tech Tips provided some numbers for the M1 and Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 for Geekbench 5 performance tests, I thought I’d look up some Geekbench 5 results for the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 CPU to make a comparison. So, for overall performance, this makes the Apple M1 chip the winner for best compute performance between the two hardware CPUs. When you look at the performance comparison to running Windows in a VM on the Apple M1 chip, it’s still faster than Windows natively on the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 hardware. This applies to both the single-thread and multi-thread tests that were performed. Source: Linus Tech TipsĪs we can see from Linus Tech Tips performance tests that the Apple M1 chip natively is much higher performing than the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 from the Surface Pro X. To see how the performance compares between the two machines, let’s first take a look at a performance comparison that Linux Tech Tips did between the Surface Pro X running the Microsoft SQ2 CPU (built as a modified Snapdragon 8cx Gen 2 processor) compared to the Apple M1 chip. This is similar to the days of comparing Intel and AMD CPUs in a way. This makes it a bit difficult to directly compare the hardware between the two. Microsoft is using the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 compute platform, while Apple is using their own Apple M1 chip. The CPU and GPU hardware are very different between these two machines. So, with Windows on ARM in a VM you should be able to still run Visual Studio 2022 or any other Windows software on the Apple Mac mini with the M1 chip as well. However, it’s possible to run Windows on ARM in a Virtual Machine (VM) on top of macOS on the M1 chip too. One thing for Windows developers is the difference that you need to be running Windows to run Visual Studio 2022 which is now available for Windows on ARM released specifically to support the new Windows Dev Kit 2023 device. These are different operating systems and will affect your ability to run certain software on the device. Now, we know the Windows Dev Kit 2023 runs Windows 11, and the Apple Mac mini runs macOS. This looks to give the Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 a bit more bang for your buck at a price point that’s $100 lower than the Apple Mac mini base model. It seems the Windows Dev Kit 2023 offers a higher amount of RAM (32GB instead of 8GB) and more storage (512GB instead of 256GB). Let’s dig in and find out which device is best!Īfter reviewing the above tables of the specifications for both the Windows Dev Kit 2023 and the Apple Mac mini, then you can clearly see there are some big differences between the two devices. After all, you can run Windows on ARM in a VM on Apple’s hardware too, so Windows can technically run on both sides. Obviously, it’s Windows OS for Microsoft and macOS for Apple on the software side, but let’s see how these two ARM-based computers compare on a hardware level. So, I thought I’d do a little research and put together the following comparison between this new Microsoft Windows Dev Kit 2023 and the Apple Mac mini. There are many others following the traditional path of looking at this new dev kit form a purely Microsoft Windows perspective. However, Microsoft isn’t building their own silicon chips like Apple, as Microsoft is using a Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 compute platform in this new Windows Dev Kit. With this device, Microsoft too is pushing further towards the ARM CPU direction with their PCs similarly to what Apple has already been doing for a couple years now with the M1 and M2 chips based on ARM CPU architecture. Microsoft started shipping its Windows Dev Kit 2023 which is a new hardware device built for developers to use for developing, testing, and running Windows on ARM applications.
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