Re:The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9
by makomk on Wednesday June 02, 2021 @05:02AM
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Well, we know that AMD's chips - which use the next largest TSMC node compared to Apple's - have a lot of diminishing returns from increasing the available power envelope above M1-like ultraportable levels, at least in the kinds of core counts you typically find in consumer desktops. So it's possible that even if Apple did ship a full desktop chip in a system with proper cooling, it wouldn't be that much faster. (It's also likely that they just won't bother, Apple being Apple.)
1. If the smallest laptop chips are this efficient what do you think a full fat desktop chip will look like? 2. I think desktop/workstation is the only category where energy usage isn’t that important, it’s probably less than $100 per year with our usage patterns (don’t quote me on that)P. But for server and laptop it’s very important (for totally different reasons).
(Realistically it’s probably a max performance vs efficient trade off, but that may be in part because we’ve not seen any large apple chips, so we don’t know how it scales)s