It would be a great move for Apple! Even if they could only get Nintendo agree to let them make/sell the hardware at a profit, put their non-Arcade services on it, use the eshop instead of the App Store, and let users play eshop games they've purchased on the Switch 2 on their Mac (for a fee...
Eh, for a Macbook 16 at least - with presumably 32 GPU cores - I think 4x LPDDR5-6400 is enough. 200GB/s bandwidth, and you are scaling the bandwidth almost linearly with the number of additional GPU cores relative to the M1. Performance will still be well above the 5600M.
No idea what...
I think you misread - I said "clocked at iPhone speeds." To be more specific, 16 Firestorm cores clocked around 2.89GHz would use around 40W. You could get to 3GHz on 5NP, though.
The only reason I was thinking about thermals is because this is a pretty ambitious proposition for the MBP16...
Wow. This is written by Gurman, but it reads like a Macrumors thread. The claim that Apple is making a 16x firestorm core part for laptops is kind of hard to believe on its face.
It does survive a baseline viability test. Clocked at iPhone speeds, 16 perf cores would use about 40W. Clocked...
Yeah, I feel like big.LITTLE already accomplishes SMT's goal of more threads in an elegant way. The Icestorm cores do take up a little die space, but it's not much. The upside is appreciable: the thermal impact of the Icestorm cores is low, while SMT necessarily piles more work onto the hottest...
I may staring a little too hard into the void. But we're so used to seeing x86 parts just go off as their thermal headroom increases, and the conventional wisdom that while laptops are good enough for most tasks there's no replacement for being able to crank desktop power consumption through...
The flood of benchmarks for the M1 have been pretty much all positive. But one small sour note seems to have gone underdiscussed.
The Mac Mini hits the same single-core performance targets as the Macbook Air in benchmarks. Of course, the Mini can doubtless sustain this performance for much...
That skepticism is understandable. The reality is that the M1 will outperform Tiger Lake by a lot on native apps, which will be few and far between at launch.
I have no reservations about the M1's performance in theory, though.
Quick note, just for people wondering. Andrei did confirm the M1 uses 2x LPDDR4X modules. The Finnish site is wrong.
But please do not despair. If we are good consumers, and we buy Apple One Pro Max subscriptions as Tim Apple asks us to do, I am sure he will someday deliver us an SoC with...
@Eug I guess we finally have our answer - Apple didn't go with the A14 in the Air but gave it a best-in-class part instead. I have no doubt the MBA will be the best fanless notebook ever made and by a large margin.
On the other hand, I can feel the aura of disappointment from MBP13 fans. Even...
Sure, I'll... conject. The A14X is probably a lot like the A12X. Four high perf cores, 7 or 8 GPU cores, and will work in fanless designs. I think pretty much everyone would guess this part exists and is as described.
The A14T is probably the Bloomberg APU. I'll guess 10 GPU cores. It...
Yeah, I don't want to extrapolate too much about GPU performance on compute scores. Apple has been keen on GPGPU for awhile now and I don't doubt that they excel in that area.
...But I can't help but mull over this 34.5% difference a little. The memory configurations appear to be the same...
Did a very lazy random sample of compute (ie gpu) scores for the "iPhone13" models on Geekbench vs the iPhone 11 Pro. 9173 > 7510.4; 22% performance increase. I didn't stratify the "iPhone13" entries with more or less RAM, but looking at the results I didn't see any evidence that there was a...
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