Continuing the preliminary comparisons, today we have the 8-core M1 Pro going against a proven competitor in the face of the Core i7-11800H. The processors work in an entirely different way, as the M1 Pro is built using the big.LITTLE architecture, featuring six high-powered Firestorm cores and two low-powered Icestorm cores.
The latter is mainly used for background and low resource tasks, conserving battery life, on the other hand, the Firestorm cores kick in when maximum performance is needed.
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