Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by hajile on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @05:47PM (#28937182)

The M1 Max is slightly off-square and 432mm^2. 19.1 x 22.6 seems like a decent fit.

TSMC has stated that N7 defect density was 0.09 a year ago or so. They have also since stated that N5 defect density was lower than N7.

Let's plug that in here https://caly-technologies.com/die-yield-calculator/

If we go with a defect density of 0.07, that's 94 good dies and 32 harvest dies. At 0.08, it's 90 and 36 respectively.

If we put that at 120 dies per wafer and $17,000 per wafer, that's just $141 per chip. That's probably WAAAYY less than they are paying for the i9 chips in their 2019 Macbook Pros.

For comparison, AMD's 6900 GPU die is 519mm^2 and Nvidia's 3080 is 628mm^2. Both are massively more expensive to produce.

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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by smiley1437 on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @07:16PM (#28938105)

thanks for the link to the die yield calculator, very handy!

And I agree - Apple making their own chips is sure looking good for their bottom line vs buying from Intel

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