Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
by jl6 on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @01:24PM
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GP mentions cores and the article is about benchmarks. The relationship between transistor count, core count, and performance, is exactly on topic.
Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
by CyberDildonics on Thursday October 02, 2025 @10:50AM
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Single core performance and transistor count are not the same thing and have been disconnected for two decades.
Did you think I said otherwise?
Re:Leaked Apple M5 9 core Geekbench scores
by CyberDildonics on Sunday October 05, 2025 @10:49PM
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Moore's law was about transistors and cost, you were equating it to performance.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45434910
Your reply here is not directly related or an answer to the comment you replied to.
You have brought a lot of your own assumptions to that reading. OP asked if doubling or tripling core count counted as keeping up with Moore’s law. I pointed out that in the case of the M series (the topic of the thread), regardless of core count, transistor count did not double or triple.
Moore's law was never about single threaded performance, it was about transistor count and transistor cost, but people misunderstood it when single threaded performance was increasing exponentially.