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Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores by aurareturn on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @03:33PM (#45430162)
SME is just the AMX coprocessor that’s been in Apple chips since 2019. SME made it easier to target the AMX. But it’s been in use and available to developers since 2019.
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Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores by wmf on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @06:23PM (#45431963)
The point stands that virtually no apps used AMX (either directly or through a framework).
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Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores by GeekyBear on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @06:55PM (#45432258)
> The point stands that virtually no apps used AMX (either directly or through a framework).

AMX has been present in every M series chip and the A series chips starting with the A13. If you are comparing M series chip scores in Geekbench 6 they are all using it, not just the latest ones.

Any app using Apple's Accelerate framework will take advantage of it.

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Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores by sgerenser on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:21PM (#45433649)
This isn’t true, I don’t believe GeekBench ever made use of AMX. They do use SME on any Arm-based platform that has it, which up until extremely recently has only been Apple.
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Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores by tcdent on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @09:54PM (#45433526)
Third-party apps sure, but you can guarantee Apple is taking advantage of it fully with any of their work.
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Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores by astafrig on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @09:59AM (#45437834)
Including in authoring all their other frameworks, which are used by many, many apps.
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Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores by sgerenser on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:19PM (#45433638)
Similar, but not the same. SME is much more powerful than AMX on the pre-M4 cores, and software can target it directly instead of using Apples frameworks. Which means that software is more likely to actually use it (eventually), even if hardly anything does now.
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