Re:Apple Neural Engine Internal: From ML Algorithm to HW Reg...
by tambourine_man on Thursday December 09, 2021 @06:10PM
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M1 tops SPEC2017 while giving you 15-20h of battery life. I'm not mentioning hardware specific accelerated tasks like Final Cut, if you throw that in it beats Xeons at a fraction of the price and power. It's just the best portable chip for regular, boring, standard Floats and Ints computation. There's really no competition yet.
Oh, and it's got crazy fast IO. And it's last year's architecture and process node. M2 with 4nm and A15 derived architecture should be another 20-30% faster at the same wattage.
The real question is the Mac Pro. What can and will Apple do when performance is the main focus? Will they just stick a bunch of M1s together (which wouldn't be bad) or are they able to crank single threaded performance a lot higher with more fans and watts to spare?
Oh, and it's got crazy fast IO. And it's last year's architecture and process node. M2 with 4nm and A15 derived architecture should be another 20-30% faster at the same wattage.
The real question is the Mac Pro. What can and will Apple do when performance is the main focus? Will they just stick a bunch of M1s together (which wouldn't be bad) or are they able to crank single threaded performance a lot higher with more fans and watts to spare?