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I'm honestly pretty excited to see what Apple can deliver. The A12Z is passively cooled, yet is on par with the 10th gen i5 in the new 13 inch MBP: https://brow
by m12k 6y ago
I'm honestly pretty excited to see what Apple can deliver. The A12Z is passively cooled, yet is on par with the 10th gen i5 in the new 13 inch MBP: https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-13-inch-mid-2020-intel-core-i5-1038ng7-2-0-ghz-4-cores https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-13-inch-mid-2... Just imagine what they can do with active cooling!
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoI'm not disagreeing per se, but "on par" is really hard to say for sure, since you're benchmarking across CPU architectures. And, one of the comparison points can only ever be run on a highly locked down black box of an OS.
- dhosek 6y agoI don't imagine the benchmarking software is being run through the App store process, so does the OS really make that big of a difference in the results? I'd think that if anything, the restricted nature of iOS would lower the benchmarks.
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoI just meant, we know very little about how the underlying technology we're testing actually works—how it prioritize cores and resources, how instructions get optimized under the hood, etc etc.
- dhosek 6y agoTo be picky, that's the hardware, not the OS. And the same argument still applies: If we're flying blind, the benchmarks may underrepresent performance (although I think you're overestimating the opacity of the i-architecture).
- anoncareer0212 6y agoIt is run through the App Store process, and AR on iOS is an...eye-opening...experience on performance characteristics of their CPUs
- mortenjorck 6y ago> The A12Z is passively cooled While it's certainly possible the A12Z in the Developer Transition Kit is a true drop-in from the iPad, I would be surprised if it's not clocked significantly higher and actively cooled given the relaxed power and thermal restrictions.