Re:Intel Fires Back at Apple's M1 Processors with Benchmarks
by WoodenChair on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:16PM
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> The real engineering feat of the M1 processor was how quickly it came to market...
Apple has been designing its own processors for 11 years and bought a team to do so that had been doing so for much longer than that. Also, nobody outside Apple knows how long they were working on M1 specifically.
Re:Intel Fires Back at Apple's M1 Processors with Benchmarks
by tedk-42 on Saturday February 06, 2021 @06:13AM
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Yeah in the mobile space - the whole x86 translation layer they implemented with custom hardware though would have blown the tops off the best engineers at Microsoft who work on their ARM Surface products.
I'm pretty interested to see what's in store for Apple during this transition
Re:Intel Fires Back at Apple's M1 Processors with Benchmarks
by kelchm on Friday February 05, 2021 @11:50PM
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It’s still pretty impressive that they pulled off a basically seamless architecture transition. M1 + Rosetta 2 just works so well it’s hard to even tell the difference much of the time.
The real engineering feat of the M1 processor was how quickly it came to market and its performance per watt for real world usage of common web tasks and anything within the Apple ecosystem.
As nice as battery life benchmarks are, I know that the Intel CPU will ramp up and chew through it's maximum rated wattage while keeping under it's thermal limit. An Apple SOC on the other hand will hum along nicely.