If you hate Apple enough, it's easy to dismiss what's happening right in front of us at the moment. What I find most interesting is looking at what this M chip can do already but also to keep in mind that they have yet to release their "Pro" spec chip (P-series?).
This is just the first iteration of a mobile level chip and it's already outperforming x86 CPUs and discrete GPUs, albeit older ones. Going the route of previously unseen levels vertical integration also opens up all sorts of new systems developmen
Those numbers seem basically a lot like what Cezanne is expected to have, at least for single-threaded performance. Of course who knows when Cezanne machines will start to ship.
Marvelous! The super-user's going to boot me!
What a finely tuned response to the situation!
A paradigm shift happening in front of us (Score:5, Insightful)
If you hate Apple enough, it's easy to dismiss what's happening right in front of us at the moment. What I find most interesting is looking at what this M chip can do already but also to keep in mind that they have yet to release their "Pro" spec chip (P-series?).
This is just the first iteration of a mobile level chip and it's already outperforming x86 CPUs and discrete GPUs, albeit older ones. Going the route of previously unseen levels vertical integration also opens up all sorts of new systems developmen
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They are going to have to work hard to overtake AMD mobile chips. Take this Cinebench test for example: https://m.hexus.net/tech/news/... [hexus.net]
The M1 scores less than half what the AMD mobile part does. The GPU is years behind current AMD ones as well.
Re: A paradigm shift happening in front of us (Score:2)
That article you linked to has an update with M1 numbers a lot closer to the AMD part.
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You are right, the updated score is a little under 3/4 the CPU performance of the mid range AMD part.
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