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"Apple may have the fastest processor, but Microsoft has the most comfortable tools. Both companies are not perfect, but if we must choose the lesser evil..."
by cpeth 6y ago
"Apple may have the fastest processor, but Microsoft has the most comfortable tools. Both companies are not perfect, but if we must choose the lesser evil..."
It's very fast for a low power, laptop-focused processor and even then only truly excels at single-threaded workloads. It's out classed by AMD mobile offerings (4900HS and 4800U) in multi-threaded workloads on most tests[0]. If you step up to desktop processors, the top end processors like the AMD 5950X are in a different class of multi-threaded performance.
Don't get me wrong, it's an exceptional processor and incredibly fast for its sub-25W TDP.
[0] - https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-tested https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...
- caycep 6y agoThis is simply a matter of adding more cores...I mean, I would hope the 5950x with its 16 full strength cores would be better than an M1 with it's big/little design...
- phendrenad2 6y agoI don't think it's as simple as adding more cores. Maybe the M1 doesn't scale up nicely.
- MBCook 6y agoWe’ll find out this year.
- SekstiNi 6y agoLooking at the die shot [1], they have plenty of space for cores and cache if they remove the GPU. Surely it's not that simple, but I believe they should be able scale to at least 8+4 cores without large interconnect changes, and at that point they are already knocking on the 5900X's door. [1] - https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16226/M1.png https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16226/M1.png
- NewLogic 6y agoI would suspect by the time that product releases, AMD will be allowed some 5nm fab capacity for a future Zen product release.