> Are they really comparing the same things - just compiled for different architecture?
IIRC they were just Geekbench 4 and 5, which are standard benchmark suites for the MacOs and iOS ecosystems, and IIRC only the subsets of the benchmark suite that ran on both the Macbook Air and the iPad Pro where compared.
The only thing that I know about Geekbench is that it benchmarks application performance, e.g., by running an application and performing a task (e.g. Cinema, Adobe, etc.).
I don't know if they use the same applications and the same tasks on every OS/arch combination. If they don't, the scores cannot be compared, and being able to compare the scores is the only purpose of these tools... so I hope so (the article I read seemed ok, so I had no reason to suspect).
IIRC they were just Geekbench 4 and 5, which are standard benchmark suites for the MacOs and iOS ecosystems, and IIRC only the subsets of the benchmark suite that ran on both the Macbook Air and the iPad Pro where compared.
The only thing that I know about Geekbench is that it benchmarks application performance, e.g., by running an application and performing a task (e.g. Cinema, Adobe, etc.).
I don't know if they use the same applications and the same tasks on every OS/arch combination. If they don't, the scores cannot be compared, and being able to compare the scores is the only purpose of these tools... so I hope so (the article I read seemed ok, so I had no reason to suspect).
Does anybody know for sure?