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This seems hasty to me... my eight year old laptop processor gets a 7500 on the Geekbench 4 benchmark. According to the first source I found [1], the A12 only g

This seems hasty to me... my eight year old laptop processor gets a 7500 on the Geekbench 4 benchmark. According to the first source I found [1], the A12 only gets an 11000. Surely modern components beat my old laptop processor by a huge margin... Even the popular old i7-6700 which came out in 2015 gets a 15000 on the same test. Obviously you have to factor in power use and other requirements, but I would be shocked if anyone with the data to back it up is seriously considering replacing desktop components with something like the A12. (I admit I want this to happen as much as anyone - I would love to see a workstation class PC with 4x ARM processors, for example. I just don't see it being quite economical yet.) [1] https://www.igen.fr/iphone/2018/07/premier-benchmark-dun-mysterieux-iphone-2018-dote-de-4-go-de-ram-104545 https://www.igen.fr/iphone/2018/07/premier-benchmark-dun-mys...

Terretta 8y ago
“Apple’s CPU have gotten so performant now, that we’re just margins off the best desktop CPUs; it will be interesting to see how the coming years evolve, and what this means for Apple’s non-mobile products.“ “What is quite astonishing, is just how close Apple’s A11 and A12 are to current desktop CPUs. I haven’t had the opportunity to run things in a more comparable manner, but taking our server editor, Johan De Gelas’ recent figures from earlier this summer, we see that the A12 outperforms a moderately-clocked Skylake CPU in single-threaded performance. Of course there’s compiler considerations and various frequency concerns to take into account, but still we’re now talking about very small margins until Apple’s mobile SoCs outperform the fastest desktop CPUs in terms of ST performance. It will be interesting to get more accurate figures on this topic later on in the coming months.” https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-review-unveiling-the-silicon-secrets/4 https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...

Terretta 8y ago

“Apple’s CPU have gotten so performant now, that we’re just margins off the best desktop CPUs; it will be interesting to see how the coming years evolve, and what this means for Apple’s non-mobile products.“ “What is quite astonishing, is just how close Apple’s A11 and A12 are to current desktop CPUs. I haven’t had the opportunity to run things in a more comparable manner, but taking our server editor, Johan De Gelas’ recent figures from earlier this summer, we see that the A12 outperforms a moderately-clocked Skylake CPU in single-threaded performance. Of course there’s compiler considerations and various frequency concerns to take into account, but still we’re now talking about very small margins until Apple’s mobile SoCs outperform the fastest desktop CPUs in terms of ST performance. It will be interesting to get more accurate figures on this topic later on in the coming months.” https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-review-unveiling-the-silicon-secrets/4 https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...