I remember having a conversation with someone who worked on hard drives in the 80s. He got so ^%$^$# excited telling me about all the improvements he worked on between generations; they were mostly things like tighter calibrations, and refinements.
Point being: Don't knock releases like this.
My guess is 18 of them.
Often it gets the performance too, but that’s kind of like a lucky break.
Also, it would make you infertile and it’d drain the battery faster than the charger can recharge it.
https://medium.com/illumination/how-to-solve-overheating-iss....
A lot of these benchmarks run for several minutes and test the system as it OVERHEATs, simulating real conditions and Intel i12 beats M1/M2. So this doesnt change anything or bring any new information.
I can say that’s definitely not the case of the Intel laptop I’m currently using.
But, more importantly, it's like comparing two cars based on horsepower when in practice both will get you to the same place, on the same road, at the same time.
But really we've only had 2.5 released cycles so far. Not much to go by.
Sadly while apple has 128 bit wide memory on the low end (66-100GB/sec on the mac mini and mba), 256 bit wide (200GB/sec), 512 bits wide (400GB/sec), and 1024 bits wide (800GB/sec). Nothing wider than 128 bits looks to be coming to standard laptops or desktops in the non-apple world. I don't really count HEDT chips like the threadripper pro, since they are very expensive and very limited, and burn many 100s of watts.
Sure that's quite a bit less than 409GB, but there's other major parts of the chip like the GPU, video codec acceleration, and neural engine.
Seems pretty unique and useful to me, not everything fits in cache.
However, no screen brightness control, no sound or YouTube currently. And there's some page size weirdness that means Chrome/Electron (?) is not usable, so no VS Code.
If you can live with that, it's so nice having Linux on the M1 hardware.
Considering that M1 was already an overkill for the most tasks, I think it is a meaningful "tok" upgrade.
Besides, I kind of expect the trend of ASIC to continue. Instead of having more extreme and extreme lithography, it kind of feels more appropriate to have computation specific developments.
Apple just teased ~18% CPU increase while staying on TSMC 5nm.
Sounds like they are doing just fine.
The increased core frequency alone brings in around that number already.
https://overclock3d.net/news/cpu_mainboard/amd_calls_its_zen...
Also, if Intel can keep up this time, and if tsmc/apple slouches, I wonder if there will be Apple silicon and Intel x86-64/risc macs/apppe devices on available simultaneously?
https://www.slashgear.com/833760/apples-3nm-processor-is-abo...