Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
by BillinghamJ on Friday April 23, 2021 @09:44AM
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Apple is doing binning, at least to some extent. e.g. some Macs have only 7 GPU cores rather than 8. Presumably that's done to a greater extent for the iPad Pro
Re:Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model
by imtringued on Friday April 23, 2021 @06:08AM
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>I am waiting to see Apple absolutely max out their SoC approach for Mac Pro.
But they already maxed out their SoCs in the benchmarks because Geekbench doesn't care about TDP. The TDP makes a difference in real world performance but not in the benchmarks.
Would you feel better if they called it A14X?
It is basically the same thing as what Intel is doing. Same Die, different binning, different naming. Same with Core count on AMD, same die, different binning on Cores and Clock Speed.
Apple doesn't bother do any of that because well it is complicated for consumers. I call it TDP Computing. You are limited by the TDP Design of the product. Not the Chip.
I am waiting to see Apple absolutely max out their SoC approach for Mac Pro.