Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production for Mac

Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by hajile on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @11:29PM (#26965219)

Apple ships a 30w charger with the M1 air. I can't find any zen 3 shipping with less than a 65w charger.

Mac mini uses like 25-27w at the wall. 15-25w TDP for the 5800u doesn't include RAM (it's LPDDR4 at 1.1v will use a lot more power than M1 LPDDR4x at 0.6v). 5800u also has a chipset that consumes a few watts.

5800u has some features that the M1 does not (these would likely increase M1 power usage), but still doesn't seem close in power consumption.

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by jjeaff on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @12:57AM (#26965757)

Does the charger wattage mean anything? Couldn't it be that they are including a larger supply in order to charge faster?

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by hajile on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @08:52AM (#26968743)

I don’t have any solid numbers on 5800u, so I didn’t want to make any claims.

4800u isn’t that different as far as power goes (mostly different in performance). A mini-PC with it uses almost 70 watts under load.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16236/asrock-4x4-box4800u-ren...

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Re:Apple's follow-up to M1 chip goes into mass production fo... by thies226j on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @02:47AM (#26966464)

No. Ryzen Laptops do consume a lot more power than the 15w the m1 consumes under load.

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