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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

There's already some initial features under investigation for WiFi 8. White paper here. TDLR is that most of it is aimed at improved median/worst-case experience for mesh / commercial deployments. The only thing I see that's useful for single router home use is dynamic-sub-channel where router...
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- Post #9,284
- Dec 10, 2024
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

My back of envelope calculations suggest that by time rumored 2026 MacBook Pro redesign comes out, anyone upgrading from M1-era machines should have a performance jump close to the initial Intel to Apple Silicon jump. Hopefully, Apple would have also improved SSD controller's random perf by...
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- Post #9,274
- Dec 9, 2024
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Discussion Apple Silicon SoC thread

That maybe freezer test vs an almost-certainly freezer iPhone 15 PM test: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/compare/7735922?baseline=7747963 Interesting to note the spread of losses and gains amongst in the ST tests. Wonder what they tweaked this time. A few of the tests have straight up...
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- Post #8,299
- Sep 13, 2024
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Question Incredible Apple M4 benchmarks...

About 38% faster in SC in GB5 comparing the high score above against a high-scoring m2 iPad entry. https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/compare/22466510?baseline=22468481 +10% IPC over 2 years, I guess.
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- Post #7
- May 11, 2024
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A9X the new mobile SoC king

The multi-year mental gymnastics needed to elevate 3DMark Physics from an interesting & notable outlier to the last bastion of Real World(tm) performance is marvelous and impressive. Bravo.
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- Post #375
- Sep 26, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Apple A9X the new mobile SoC king

That graph specifically shows Geekbench Memory scores. Are you complaining that increasing memory bandwidth offers corresponding increases in memory bandwidth tests?
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- Post #373
- Sep 26, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Launch price of GTX 980 Ti will be $649?

Were we expecting a gigantic 980 price drop? Because $650 for a 980Ti means <30% price increase for a straight 30% performance boost. That's a great dream and all, but I don't think high end markets in the real world work that way...
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- Post #99
- May 29, 2015
- Forum: Nvidia
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Intel Broadwell Thread

Maybe. The FIVR's published efficiency numbers for med-high voltages were mediocre compared to a good external regulator, so if anything, desktop Skylake will be more efficient under sustained load. FIVR's main advantage is for better DVFS, which is needed for mobile, so I expect that we'll see...
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- Post #2,321
- May 16, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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POWER8 SMT8 far surpasses the claims that IBM made!?

It's been a while since I looked at Power8 docs, but IIRC, the chip was explicitly designed with the assumption that SMT *will* be used. To phrase it differently, a single thread is physically unable to utilize an entire core. I think the assumed minimum is SMT2, so I'd be more interested to...
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- Post #6
- May 8, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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MorphCore paper - rumored new architecture in Skylake

wccftech: "BREAKING: iPhone 7's new CPU architecture uncovered in detail"
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- Post #17
- Apr 21, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Samsung Exynos Thread (big.LITTLE Octa-core)

That number is versus a Snapdragon, which also includes connectivity and location blocks. Besides containing analog elements, which don't typically shrink well, they seem to take up about 25% of the 805 die, if Qualcomm's diagrams are accurate.
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- Post #385
- Apr 3, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[Tom's Hardware] Most of Apple's A9/A9X to be manufactured on TSMC's 16 nm FinFET.

They shrunk the gate length and contacted gate pitch. I'm not sure why this is even an argument. It's, like, a thing.
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- Post #19
- Mar 16, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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[Tom's Hardware] Most of Apple's A9/A9X to be manufactured on TSMC's 16 nm FinFET.

It's sub-20nm. Samsung improved feature sizes compared to its 20nm. (And I was under the impression TSMC did the same with its FF+ variant, but I haven't seen numbers.)
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- Post #15
- Mar 15, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Broadwell Thread

The point wasn't what Intel claims Broadwell will bring. The point was that Apple, who's historically been great at maximizing power efficiency per component, seemingly got little out of their Broadwell upgrade.
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- Post #1,991
- Mar 9, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
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Intel Broadwell Thread

So the both updated MBAs and 13in rMBPs have Broadwell... but the only latter has a battery life boost: a measly 1hr jump to 10hr. It seems like the 11in MBA version, with a large ratio of CPU consumption to everything else, should at least have a good bump in specced battery numbers from 14nm...
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- Post #1,980
- Mar 9, 2015
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking

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