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Re:Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast? by periya on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:01PM (#25258219)
Also being on TSMC5 on top of significant micro architecture improvements ; ~630 instruction deep ROB, ability to queue ~150 outstanding load instruction and ~100 outstanding stores and huge TLBs which reduces swapping the anandtech article does a great job going into explaining this.
Re:Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast? by aey on Thursday December 03, 2020 @01:24AM (#25286070)
All that helps, but if you look at the die you are going to see a massive 12MB L2 with a bunch of routing to all the L1s. That’s where the majority of the cost is going vs any other chip.