{"id":379078,"date":"2020-12-05T09:01:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T07:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=379078"},"modified":"2020-12-05T09:04:16","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T07:04:16","slug":"windows-10-faster-on-apple-chips-than-microsofts-own-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/379078-windows-10-faster-on-apple-chips-than-microsofts-own-hardware.html","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 faster on Apple chips than Microsoft’s own hardware – Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

A recently-published comparison video<\/strong><\/a> shows Windows 10 running faster on Apple’s custom-built processors than Microsoft’s own hardware.<\/p>\n

In the comparison – which was reported<\/strong><\/a> on by Softpedia News – YouTuber Martin Nobel pitted a Mac Mini with an Apple Silicon M1 processor against the Surface X Pro laptop which employs Microsoft’s custom-built SQ2 chip.<\/p>\n

Nobel was able to get Windows 10 up and running on the Mac Mini by using the ACVM emulation launcher to run an\u00a0ARM64 Virtual Machine instance.<\/p>\n

He conducted Geekbench 5 single-core and multi-core benchmarks to see how the system was performing.<\/p>\n

The Mac Mini with M1 processor scored an impressive 1,515 for single-core performance, as opposed to the 793 of the Surface Pro X.<\/p>\n

In multi-core testing, the Mac Mini also outperformed Microsoft’s machine – hitting 4,998 compared with the Surface Pro X’s 3,113 .<\/p>\n

Nobel also illustrated how smoothly the 64-bit Microsoft Edge browser works on the OS, as well as the performance of several x86-based emulated programs like Microsoft’s Chess, Solitaire, and Minesweeper games.<\/p>\n

In addition, he was able to run the DOSbox program with no issues.<\/p>\n

Ball in Microsoft’s court<\/h3>\n

Apple has previously said<\/strong><\/a> that its new ARM-based processors will be able to support Windows 10.<\/p>\n

Speaking in an\u00a0interview with Ars Technica<\/strong><\/a>, Apple senior vice president of software engineering Craig Federighi remarked that it was up to Microsoft if they wanted to bring their operating system to its new platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the core technologies for them to do that, to run their ARM version of Windows, which in turn, of course, supports x86 user-mode applications,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut that\u2019s a decision Microsoft has to make, to bring to license that technology for users to run on these Macs. But the Macs are certainly very capable of it,\u201d Federighi added.<\/p>\n

Below is Martin Nobel’s video showing Windows 10 running on a 2020 Mac Mini with M1 processor.<\/p>\n