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ARM less powerful? Wait and see what Apple can do with their own ARM-design if they target Desktops / Laptops. We might get to see 32 or even 64 cores in a regu
by iagooar 9y ago
ARM less powerful? Wait and see what Apple can do with their own ARM-design if they target Desktops / Laptops. We might get to see 32 or even 64 cores in a regular MBP. Now tell me how THAT would be less powerful than the current Intel offering.
- saagarjha 9y agoApple has always gone down the path of fewer, more powerful cores instead of packing many, weaker ones. Apple's chips were dual core until A10.
- pilsetnieks 9y agoAnd it has let them eke out performance that absolutely leaves almost all Android phones in the dust, and all that with a battery that's 30-50% smaller than the rest (although that does bring its own problems, as we now know.) Imagine if they're not held back by the battery at all, or even just have to match the power consumption of the power-hungry x86 chips.
- imtringued 9y agoLet's be realistic. 64 A72 or A11 cores is a pipe dream. It's not going to happen without a massive nm process advantage. If we had a MBP with 64 wimpy a53 cores it would still only have 50% of the performance of a Intel i7 8700k or AMD Ryzen 1800X on paper. Of course that is faster than most notebooks but if you truly care about CPU performance then you usually wouldn't use a notebook in the first place.