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The A11 may need to thermal throttle right after the benchmark completes (which is actually reasonable for many workloads, but games). IIRC the previous gen A1
by hyperpallium 9y ago
The A11 may need to thermal throttle right after the benchmark completes (which is actually reasonable for many workloads, but games).
IIRC the previous gen A10x in the iPad Pro beat some low-end macs, and usually the next gen non-x is a bit faster than the previous gen x... so, I'd expect the A11 to be faster than some low-end macs.
Could Apple be arranging 3rd party conversions in secret? Or, could the conversion be done seamlessly, at the compiler level?
Anyway, I think ARM macs have been on the cards for a few years now... in a way, the iPad Pro can be seen as a way of experimenting with Mac-level power, as a preparatory step.
Their hesitation might partly be due to a kind of identity crisis: if we can develop iOS apps on a Mac, and that Mac is ARM, why can't we develop on an iOS device itself? But Apple doesn't want open iOS devices.
- imtringued 9y agoThis is just speculation since I don't own an iPad Pro but I read a comment on reddit that during the beta version of the latest iOS the iPad Pro had thermal management issues where it would get very hot quickly. Could it be that apple is intentionally removing thermal throttling at launch and then enables it after a month to cheat benchmarks and reviews?
- hyperpallium 9y agoI didn't mean to imply it was deliberate. I think it's more likely that one of the purposes of the beta was to determine when thermal throttling was ideal, given real-world workloads (which are hard to fine-tune without knowing exactly how people will use it). It's a pity thermal throttling is necessary; but at least in a Mac form-factor, there would be more cooling options.