Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development

Re:Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Develop... by rayiner on Monday December 14, 2020 @01:47PM (#25421445)

> However, Apple seems to be going in the direction of having many many hardware accelerators builtin to their SoC and integrated into their software ecosystem.

I think this is overstated. There are quite a few differences between Intel and AMD extensions these days and they don’t create much of a problem. Apple’s architecture isn’t reliant on accelerators or special instructions to get good performance on general purpose code.

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Re:Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Develop... by skohan on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:14PM (#25421827)

But it could exist right? For instance, what if MS created an ARM variant with special instructions to accelerate C# garbage collection? You could imagine a world where vertical integration throughout the entire stack leads to software which kind of works everywhere, but only really gives a good experience on 1st party hardware.

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Re:Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Develop... by anko on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:33PM (#25423647)

I'm no expert but put too many extensions in there and you're looking less like RISC and more like CISC. It would make more sense on x86 platforms.

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