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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by turtlebits on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:29PM (#23605040)
When its running on a iPad pro chip? It's pretty impressive., considering Microsoft x86 emulation on the Surface pro X is abysmal.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by sudosysgen on Monday June 22, 2020 @03:30PM (#23605078)
Is the target to match the performance of ten year old hardware? Then sure, that's matched. But it's not impressive. AMD FX CPUs have better performance than that, by a mile.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by nicoburns on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:00PM (#23605619)
Yeah, but this is their existing CPU/GPU designed to fit into the constraints of the iPad form factor. They'll likely have something much more powerful for consumer hardware.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by sudosysgen on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:30PM (#23609054)
The iPad CPU/GPU is already thermal limited. An unlimited A12Z is right at the TDP of a laptop chip, at ~25-30W (5W per big core per anandtech, 4 cores, plus GPU and I/O, it's actually quite a generous estimate.

An unlocked A12Z is likely all you can get away with in a laptop, and inferior to SOTA x86 low power CPUs.

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