Man that either hella discounts all the amazing work Apple’s CPU engineers are doing or hyping up what AMD’s have done. Idk

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Jensson 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

Isn't it you who is hyping up Apple here when you don't even compare the two using similar architecture? Compare a 5nm AMD laptop low power cpu to Apple M1 and the M1 no longer looks that much better at all.

	▲	gigatexal 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Why are we talking about the M1 that came out eons (in computer time) ago? That the M1 is a benchmark is just sad when the M4 is running circles around competing x86 processors and the M5 is on the horizon which who knows what that has in store.

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tracker1 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I wouldn't discount what Apple has done... they've created and integrated some really good niche stuff in their CPUs to do more than typical ARM designs. The graphics cores are pretty good in their own right even. Not to mention the OS/Software integration including accelerated x86 and unified memory usage in practice.

AMD has done a LOT for parallelization and their server options are impressive... I mean, you're still talking 500W+ in total load, but that's across 128+ cores. Strix Halo scaling goes down impressively to the ~10-15W range under common usage, not as low as Apple does under similar loads but impressive in its own way.