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A comment on Apple M1 Ultra's 64-Core GPU Fails to Dethrone the Mighty RTX 3090. Parent comment

Re:Apple M1 Ultra's 64-Core GPU Fails to Dethrone the Mighty... by danieldk on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:22AM (#30721252)
3090 is on Samsung 8nm 2+years old node so it will always be worse

While the M1 Ultra is the latest CPU, it still uses A14/M1 cores from 2020. It's likely that Apple made a lot of progress on the microarchitecture since then, plus rumors are that M2 will switch to a 4nm node.

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Re:Apple M1 Ultra's 64-Core GPU Fails to Dethrone the Mighty... by komuher on Friday March 18, 2022 @08:28AM (#30721304)
Samsung 8nm was almost 2 years old when rtx 3090 was coming to the market (english isnt my native language in my head it was clearer :D)

Apple is on TSMC 5nm here comment from 2years ago about 8nm samsung vs 7nm TSMC

"Hell, Samsung 8nm is really a 10nm process, it's just an extension of Samsung 10nm with a ~15-20% improvement in transistor density.

TSMC 7nm (EUV 4 layer) is nearly twice as dense as Samsung 8nm. non-EUV (first gen TSMC 7nm) is still far denser than Samsung 8nm."

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