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It's a slightly better comparison, however Ryzen 6000 is on N6 (which is an optimized N7 process), whereas M1 Max is on N5. N5 is considerably denser than N6.
by jagger27 5y ago
It's a slightly better comparison, however Ryzen 6000 is on N6 (which is an optimized N7 process), whereas M1 Max is on N5. N5 is considerably denser than N6.
AMD's next round of APUs on 5 nm will offer a better die area comparison.
- opisthenar84 5y agoI remember reading that at 5nm, electron tunnelling through transistor gates would be a major problem. What happened to that?
- imtringued 4y agoThat would be the case if 5nm didn't refer to a random feature of a reference planar transistor that is only used to chronologically name the process according to its mathematically equivalent density..
- ace2358 5y agoI think the do funky stuff with the 3D or 2.5D geometry of the gate so that the surface area (between transistors) is larger for a smaller footprint. Someone correct me if I’m wrong!
- jagger27 5y agoYes, that tech is called FinFET and it has been in use for many years. The new hot thing is GAAFET (Gate-all-around FET).
- aunty_helen 5y ago5nm doesn’t mean anything is actually 5nm. It’s the “5nm node” Marketing dept has trumped physics.