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I wonder if Apple/ARM has now peaked in performance too (same as what happened with intel 4-5 years ago). "Up to 15% faster" is not noticeable outside the realm
by ulfw 8y ago
I wonder if Apple/ARM has now peaked in performance too (same as what happened with intel 4-5 years ago). "Up to 15% faster" is not noticeable outside the realm of benchmarks.
- valarauca1 8y agoUnlikely Apple/ARM is developing their processors for a very narrow power budget (mobile). While they have shown promise in benchmarks designed to compare their peek performance while mitigating thermal issues [1]. The long term consistent heat mitigation, and power draw limits consistent behavior. Secondary performance gains from multi-tier caching (Apple does 2, Intel does 3, IBM does 4) and multiple channels of ddr which can greatly accelerate application throughput. In short. Apple's processors are designed for mobile first, and ARM can still gain _a lot_ in terms of performance. While it is approaching compute/cycle of Intel's processors it isn't there yet. [1] What I'm trying to say is don't link GeekBenchmark that what ever mobile process has >= the same number of BogoMIPS as a server class CPU. Geek Benchmark throttles hard on mobile doing burst testing to avoid thermal throttling, this effects the benchmark results negatively on server class computers (as the test doesn't generate enough load to kick up the core clock) and positively effects mobile (by avoiding dropping the core clock).
- Steko 8y agoSeems like you've cherry picked a low number. They claim 50% graphics improvement and the neural net cores' instructions/sec went up by a factor of 8 (600B -> 5T)