Sure, you can configure a cheaper server with just the hardware needed for this benchmark, this is just the fastest machine we have in our cluster RAM-wise, that has one NUMA node. That's why we added it as an extra point of reference. The core comparison is of course between two generations of MacBooks, as the title suggests.
Plus, $3000 on Macbooks isnt going to exclusively to CPU and RAM either. You buy the whole system. I am not even sure if we can find out the price of the M1 alone. I guess it will be around $500 for the M1 SoC vs $6000 for the Threadripper, still a 12x difference, even if we keep their power consumption out of the equation.
Plus, $3000 on Macbooks isnt going to exclusively to CPU and RAM either. You buy the whole system. I am not even sure if we can find out the price of the M1 alone. I guess it will be around $500 for the M1 SoC vs $6000 for the Threadripper, still a 12x difference, even if we keep their power consumption out of the equation.