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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by santoshalper on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:06PM (#23607426)
Multi-core performance is not a strong suit of Apple's ARM architecture, I suspect you're going to see a mild to moderate performance hit for things like compilation.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by nicoburns on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:52PM (#23607876)
The rumours are that they're doubling the number of high-performance cores for the laptop chips (so 8 high performance cores and 4 low-power cores). That + better cooling ought to boost the multi-core performance quite significantly.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by npunt on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:20PM (#23607566)
Thats mostly because of thermals, which are drastically different on Mac.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by gsnedders on Monday June 22, 2020 @09:18PM (#23608970)
Is their multi-core performance poor, or have they just made size/power trade-offs against increasing the number of cores? The iPad Pro SoCs are literally the only parts they've made so far with four big cores.
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