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Based on benchmarks (take them at face value) [1], Apple's A12/A12x processors are roughly 80% the performance of current-gen desktop CPUs (and on par with some
by holy_city 7y ago
Based on benchmarks (take them at face value) [1], Apple's A12/A12x processors are roughly 80% the performance of current-gen desktop CPUs (and on par with some mobile ones) in single threaded performance. I think a bit of that is power concerns, even with the 8 core chips.
There have been rumors floating around that Apple will switch to their own ARM cores (based on the A12, probably) for a future generation of Mac computers. I think they'd have to meet or beat x86 for that to happen.
Interestingly they're manufactured with TSMC's 7nm process, just like the new AMD chips.
https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks