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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by GeekyBear on Thursday November 12, 2020 @07:53AM (#25069293)
The silicon lottery is still a thing.

I imagine they will eventually have enough chips to start binning for different performance levels like AMD and Intel do.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by AshamedCaptain on Thursday November 12, 2020 @09:39AM (#25070339)
They are already binning. The air is supposed to be less powerful, with cheaper variants even having one core less.

The benchmark is just ... that accurate.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by GeekyBear on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:02AM (#25070586)
They are binning for functional GPU cores and allow chips with only 7 functional GPU cores instead of 8 to go into the lower priced Air.

They are not binning for how high the cores will clock, which is just how business is done with Intel and AMD.

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