World of Warcraft 9.0.2 client runs natively on Apple Silicon

Re:World of Warcraft 9.0.2 client runs natively on Apple Sil... by nightski on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @01:39PM (#25140561)

Are we really sure ARM is where the advantage here is with Apple? Not the 5 nm process?

Let's be real, it's just on par with the Zen 3 in single threaded perf which is on a 7nm+ process. When Zen 4 comes it might be moot.

AMD's entire market cap is practically on par with Apple's cash on hand (so very different companies in terms of size/capability) yet they are equal in performance single threaded? Not only that, in practical terms the AMD chip is very desirable in many situations because it has twice the cores.

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Re:World of Warcraft 9.0.2 client runs natively on Apple Sil... by GeekyBear on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:21PM (#25141161)

AMD has beat Intel despite being at a process node disadvantage in the past.

We do have an entire shopping list of ways in which Apple's ARM core implementation leads vs. x86 in their five watt iPhone chip.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...

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