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Yeah, Apple hasn't made any real fundamental changes since the M1 chip to their CPU architecture. Of course, they didn't need to. The fact remains, ST performance is roughly on PAR with Intel/AMD while also remaining massively more efficient. Remember, Apple has to put these cores in a smart...

The iPhone 15 is getting last year’s iPhone pro chip, the A16. If the A16 doesn’t have a USB3 capable controller in it, they’re not going to fab a completely new version of the chip just to make you happy. Sometimes it’s helpful to look at the practical nature of things rather than simply...

It’s kind of funny how we just focus on the CPU still. With 20% CPU increase, 35+% GPU increase, 40% NPU increase, 50% memory bandwidth increase, improved media blocks, etc. it’s clear that the M2 is a worthy successor to the M1. All this while maintaining industry leading performance per...

I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make here regarding transistor count. The AMD thread ripper is just a CPU. The M1 ultra is an SoC… meaning a CPU, GPU, ISP, NPU, Media encoders/decoders, Secure Enclave, etc. The CPU represents a relatively small part of the M1 Ultra transistor budget.

The failure of Linux on the desktop was completely predictable. I said it would fail for obvious reasons. Its biggest strength was also its biggest weakness. Customization is great, but when you have no standards, it's tough to get developers to support it properly. The fact is, the...

They didn't entirely. Some things like tile based deferred rendering is unavoidable. That is, if they still want to be fast and efficient. So, they negotiated a broad multi-year licensing deal. https://www.bbc.com/news/business-50976759

I'm not sure what your comment has to do with my post. Yes, I agree that GPU acceleration is valuable and helps pro applications. Apple knows this too. Apple isn't going to all of a sudden ignore the GPU because they have their own silicon. Just the opposite. Your comment stated: "But...

It's sort of like the GIF "Giff / Jiff" pronunciation. Sometimes it doesn't matter what the "official" usage is if it doesn't match up with the popular usage. In this case, "think" may well be historically correct and even semantically more correct. But, it's hard to argue that it "sounds"...

Not necessarily... https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/usage-another-think-coming-or-another-thing-coming

Not likely. The GPU is highly parallel in nature and something that easily scales, depending on how many cores you want to add to it. Apple can scale performance exactly to whatever they feel their needs are. Early concerns were that Apple was going to try to do everything on a single SoC...

Just to add some context. 2019 Mac sales were $25.7 Billion. Even though that's a relatively small amount for Apple, it's still a fairly large and profitable business. Last checked, Apple had something like 90% marketshare for PCs costing more than $1000. Either way, the Mac is still a...

You’ve clearly never worked on a Mac. You are looking at tools that modify existing behavior of built in functionality. I use both Windows and Macs on a daily basis. There is absolutely no benefit to Windows multitasking over Mac OS. Instead of pointing to an article that only shows you...

Examples???

FaceID is specifically dependent on the Neural Engine built into the iPhone X and higher.

This is a widely used and understood benchmark. The details aren’t a big mystery. The link below gives you detail on each of the sub tests. https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench5-cpu-workloads.pdf I also mentioned Anandtech ran SPEC benchmarks as well and came to the same conclusion. Let...