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The A12X is already comparable to some Intel CPUs in terms of performance. Yet its power and thermal budget is tiny. The Macbook Pro 13" has an 83 Wh battery [1
by andr 8y ago
The A12X is already comparable to some Intel CPUs in terms of performance. Yet its power and thermal budget is tiny. The Macbook Pro 13" has an 83 Wh battery [1], while the iPad Pro 12.9" only has 36 Wh.
What I like to imagine is an ARM Macbook with the equivalent of two A12s. That will give you an outstanding performance with better battery life. You'll also get further growth potential that Apple has demonstrated year over year, compared to Intel CPUs, which have stagnated.
I'm terribly excited about this. And yes, getting your Docker images to run on ARM will be a bit of a drag, but in the long term, this sounds like the future.
[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/more-resources/docs/apple-product-information-sheet.pdf https://www.apple.com/legal/more-resources/docs/apple-produc...
- tyingq 8y agoWhat if they start rolling the locked down sandbox features into MacOS?
- jmull 8y agoIf they do, what does that have to do with ARM?
- tyingq 8y agoUnified hardware makes unified software easier.
- _ph_ 8y agoThen a large part of the Mac userbase, especially anyone doing any kind of development, is going to drop the Mac platform. This is also the main reason the iPad Pro doesn't make larger dents into the laptop market. Development and even file transfer between apps is very limited.
- interpol_p 8y agoIt's getting better. I wrote a piece on immediate file transfer between apps to simulate "live painting" from one app into another. I can see iPad getting there, but productivity app developers are slow to adopt the iOS file system introduced some time ago. https://codea.io/blog/whats-next-for-ipad-creativity/ https://codea.io/blog/whats-next-for-ipad-creativity/
- ZenPsycho 8y agothey already have- you can still unlock it if you have admin but ve default you’re restricted to signed and sandboxed mac app store apps.
- bryanlarsen 8y agoThe A12X is a ten billion transistor 10 watt 7nm chip. The Intel chips have fewer transistors, a 10nm or 14nm process, and some of them have a similar power budget. The A12X is amazing but you cannot have your cake and eat it too.
- jiadsngunuio 8y agoWhy do you think it's comparable? I've never seen any cross-platform benchmarks. Except Geekbench, which isn't worth taking seriously. It's plausible it's competitive with modern x86 stuff. I just haven't seen any evidence one way or the other.
- interpol_p 8y agoAnandtech’s review shows that it is comparable in a number of benchmarks including SPEC https://www.anandtech.com/show/13661/the-2018-apple-ipad-pro-11-inch-review/4 https://www.anandtech.com/show/13661/the-2018-apple-ipad-pro...
- ksec 8y ago>The Macbook Pro 13" has an 83 Wh battery [1], while the iPad Pro 12.9" only has 36 Wh. What has the size of battery in Mac and iPad got to do with its SoC / CPU. The A12X is only comparable to Intel under a sustained Sub 10W workload. We have yet to see how it will perform in the higher TDP range. Scaling CPU TDP up or Down is not a simple task.