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Re:Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt and the Future Looks Dim by mightymercado on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:54AM (#28537916)
The M1 is essentially a large version of the A14 chip and uses the same firestorm and icestorm cores. With such unsubstantial improvements in the A15, the M2 should theoretically also have unsubstantial gains because it will be a large version of A15. The article also mentions that some key technical staff jumped ship so that might somehow halt innovation.
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Re:Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt and the Future Looks Dim by rbanffy on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @08:33AM (#28538251)
How substantial really depends on the workload. It's small in single-thread performance, but it's easy to grow it with more cores and I'd love to see a lot of background processes moving to more icestorm cores to keep the firestorm ones free.
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Re:Apple CPU Gains Grind to a Halt and the Future Looks Dim by chemmail on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @07:06PM (#28545597)
While IPC is probably not a huge bump, the brute force of doubling the System Cache should yield decent improvements in a lot of workloads on the laptop side.
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