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Re:Testing AMD's Bergamo: Zen 4c by Jensson on Sunday June 23, 2024 @05:51AM (#40766122)
> so early access deals with TSMC is the secret weapon this buys them about 6 months

Aren't Apple typically 2 years ahead? M1 came out 2020, other CPUs from the same node level (5 nm TSMC) came out 2022. If you mean apple launches their 6 months ahead of the rest of the industry gets on the previous node, sure, but not the current node.

What you are thinking about is maybe that AMD 7nm is comparable to Apple 5nm, but really what you should compare is todays AMD cpus with the Apple cpu from 2022, since they are on the same architecture.

But yeah, all the impressive bits about Apple performance disapears once you take architecture into account.

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Re:Testing AMD's Bergamo: Zen 4c by hulitu on Sunday June 23, 2024 @06:38AM (#40766370)
> but really what you should compare is todays AMD cpus with the Apple cpu from 2022, since they are on the same architecture

There only seems to be comparisons between laptop CPUs which are quiet limited.

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Re:Testing AMD's Bergamo: Zen 4c by weebull on Sunday June 23, 2024 @12:08PM (#40768432)
Same node. Not same architecture.
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