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The A12Z is already shipping in the latest iPad Pro, so it's not like its performance is some unknown quantity: benchmarks are aplenty... Although I guess this
by Xixi 6y ago
The A12Z is already shipping in the latest iPad Pro, so it's not like its performance is some unknown quantity: benchmarks are aplenty... Although I guess this dev kit could run at a different frequency, and have more/less memory bandwidth. Performance should still roughly be that of the iPad Pro.
The A12Z is itself only a small update on the A12X from 2018, so it's basically two years behind whatever will ship in actual ARM Macs this fall...
- fomine3 6y agoI expect DTK performs better than iPad Pro because it can supply more power and has more thermal budget (maybe still has active cooling fan).
- Xixi 6y agoIt might be running at a somewhat higher frequency, because why not. But the DTK is not a production model, so I don't expect Apple to spend significant resources on it. After all the A12Z should be good enough as-is. You have to consider that Apple engineers are busy designing new SoCs for the entire Mac line-up: optimizing the A12Z for the DTK is probably not their top priority at the moment. They will want to wow people with a new MacBook (Air? Pro? <blank>?) this fall: that SoC should be their priority...
- floatboth 6y agoThe devkit has 16GB of RAM; no way it's not at least dual-channel memory.