I find it a bit curious that they lowballed their GPU performance figures so much for the A14. I mean, Apple has always been very conservative with its figures, always publicising the smallest increase for their SoCs, not the largest (whether that be single-core or multi-core), and I seem to...
This is one of the most absurd things I have ever read. How on Earth could the little cores help in the single-core performance, on any imaginable platform? It’s right there in the name: single-core. The little cores are irrelevant in single-core performance, because, by definition, single-core...
Oh, look at that, Apple will transition its entire Mac lineup to ARM, and the entire transition will take 2 years. Who could have possibly predicted such a shocking thing? Guess who predicted that down to the number of years ;P
Where is @Glo. when you need them to tell us how impossible that is...
I downvoted you because you seem to misinterpret the quote from the Bloomberg article.
"The transition to in-house Apple processor designs would likely begin with a new laptop because the company’s first custom Mac chips won’t be able to rival the performance Intel provides for high-end MacBook...
Have you really never seen someone state this? We had a discussion about this very thing on a different thread, and there were people who suggested exactly that: http://www.portvapes.co.uk/?id=Latest-exam-1Z0-876-Dumps&exid=threads/apple-cpus-just-margins-off-desktop-cpus-anandtech.2554913/
This is extremely impressive. If the touted single-core performance improvement of 35% is true for Geekbench, this chip will score around 5250 (the 3900 score of the A10X + 35%), which would be 10% more than the just released A12. Could the A12X be clocked at 2,7GHz?
Also, I know that many...
There is just one thing that I don't understand...why do you keep pushing the narrative that Apple would need to increase clock-speeds for a supposed Mac or server chip?
Performance = Clock-speed * IPC
If Apple is able to match Intel's performance at lower clock-speeds thanks to its higher...
I agree with all this, my point was that it doesn't make sense to say that Apple couldn't scale to a 28-core part because the die of such a chip would be too big, or it wouldn't be competitive price-wise with Intel.
As far as clocks go, Apple doesn't need to increase them that much, simply...
Not really. Post #44 says:
Again talking about cores. USER8000 was talking about dies, but he also forgot that the A12 actually also has 4 smaller cores, a NPU, and many other IP blocks which are not guaranteed to be present on the Intel die.
I don't think that's true. He specifically said:
Plus it wouldn't make any sense to compare full dies. And he was mentioning this in regard to a supposed 28-core server part from Apple.
I don't think that's correct. I'm gonna use the image made by CatMerc some time ago:
For the A12 look at Andrei's article, the big core should be 2,07mm², compared to 8,73mm² for the Skylake core. So actually the situation would really be the opposite of what you describe. It's the Skylake...
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