do NPU TOPS really mean anything to the user? they're clearly delivering the NPU performance they need for Apple Intelligence and other ML models running on the system. nearly everything else in the user experience is driven by the CPU and the single core CPU speed is still WAY faster than the...
Apple is ALL about segmenting their products in a way that it entices people to upgrade to the next tier. a MacBook Air with higher single-core and multi-core CPU performance than their M3 Pro MacBook Pros is a situation they want to avoid if they can. GPU performance matters a lot less than CPU...
still think the M4 Pro/Max aren’t ready which is why they haven’t transitioned Macs to M4. they haven’t had a Macbook Air faster than the Macbook Pro since they transitioned to Apple Silicon. People aren’t likely to be cross-shopping an iPad Pro and Macbook Pro so it matters less for the iPad...
and you think Apple cares enough to change their SoC roadmap cause of some reviewers? they obviously compare against all of their competitors internally, but that's not going to change their release cadence.
Yeah, for Mac lineup, they probably don't want their cheapest laptop to have faster CPU...
Please, you don't just pull in the launch of a SoC on a new process node in a new device on a whim. the amount of lead time needed to release the M4 iPad Pro is likely measured in years, not something you can just do. Apple probably does not care about Zen 5 much at all, I've never seen Apple...
Process-wise, M2 should be on TSMC 3nm which should bring power improvements, Zen 4 will also move to TSMC 5nm which will help as well. The outlier is Raptor Lake still on Intel 7.
1) Single threaded performance - Intel, with the architectural improvements in Raptor Lake and their willingness...
very strange that the scaling from Pro to Max is not 2x given the increase in memory bandwidth and cores, we need to see more benchmarks to see what's going on.
@BorisTheBlade82 it's alright, there are a lot of people still in denial. still looking for reasons to be unimpressed by Apple's chips saying it's not an Apples to apples comparison because of process node. When the others get to 5nm (or Intel's 4?) we can finally do a "real" comparison right?
It seems like they didn't improve the P-cores at all, but improved MT either by improving the E-cores or by improving multi-threaded efficiency (potentially the doubled system level cache).
My guess is that there's so much work to do on the new Mac chips that they decided to focus on that...
This is something I've been wondering about, but the design of the current Mac Pro (and any other desktop honestly) is the antithesis of what the M1 is. The Mac Pro is highly modular with user replaceable RAM, storage, graphics, accelerator cards. The M1 essentially takes all of that minus the...
Most likely still TSMC 5nm given the size of the chips, I don't expect they would try a new node with these chips. Memory could be LPDDR4x again with additional channels for addressing more memory, but they could surprise us with LPDDR5.
Regarding the "Chop" having only 16 GPU cores, the GPU seems like it will make up a significant amount of die space of the new chip. Going by M1 die shots, the 8-core GPU takes up ~25% of the space? In a theoretical Jade C a 32 core GPU would be as big as the M1. The rest of the components would...
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