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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Comparison of the Usability of Apple M1 Processors for Various Machine Learning Tasks.

David Kasperek, Michal Podpora, Aleksandra Kawala-Sterniuk

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

David KasperekDepartment of Computer Science, Opole University of Technology, Proszkowska 76, 45-758 Opole, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-5659-0933
Michal PodporaDepartment of Computer Science, Opole University of Technology, Proszkowska 76, 45-758 Opole, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-1080-6767
Aleksandra Kawala-SterniukDepartment of Computer Science, Opole University of Technology, Proszkowska 76, 45-758 Opole, Poland.ORCID 0000-0001-7826-1292

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, the authors have compared all of the currently available Apple MacBook Pro laptops, in terms of their usability for basic machine learning research applications (text-based, vision-based, tabular). The paper presents four tests/benchmarks, comparing four Apple Macbook Pro laptop versions: Intel based (i5) and three Apple based (M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max). A script in the Swift programming language was prepared, whose goal was to conduct the training and evaluation process for four machine learning (ML) models. It used the Create ML framework-Apple's solution dedicated to ML model creation on macOS devices. The training and evaluation processes were performed three times. While running, the script performed measurements of their performance, including the time results. The results were compared with each other in tables, which allowed to compare and discuss the performance of individual devices and the benefits of the specificity of their hardware architectures.

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Machine LearningComputersApple M1CoreMLdeep learningmachine learningNeural Engineneural processing coresneural processing unitNPU benchmarkprocessor architectures

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PMID36298358
PMCPMC9608475

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