Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c...
by globular-toast on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @04:35AM
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I think you confirmed what you were replying to. Intel makes the numbers get bigger as you go up, regardless of whether that makes the most sense.
Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c...
by masklinn on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @04:46AM
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Oh yeah I misread the comment.
Although that’s not quite true either e.g. on raptor lake H, the upper i5 (13600H) has 8 E cores while the low range i7 (13620H) has 4, but the i7 has 6 P-cores versus 4. The base frequencies also get lower as you move from i5 to i7. And you have less GPU EU (80 -> 64).
Re:Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max, the most advanced c...
by 3c6bYDXLMj on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @04:32AM
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Well, when your P is still quite E, I guess it’s a different equation :).
Wouldn’t do what? Intel has more E-cores than P-cores on most of their range, and especially on the higher end e.g. on raptor lake S the i9 all have 16 E and 8 P, the i7s have 8:8, only the lower end of the i5 (below 13500) have more P than E cores. And the i3 have no E cores.
The story is somewhat similar on mobile (H and HX), a minority of SKUs have more P than E, and none of them in P and U.
In fact that was one of the things which surprised me when Intel started releasing asymmetric SMT, they seemed to bank heavily on E cores when mobile and Apple had mostly been 1:1 or biased towards P cores.