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It's also benchmarks of a slightly slowed down version of a chip intended for an iPad Pro, assembled to support development of porting to a new processor. As th

It's also benchmarks of a slightly slowed down version of a chip intended for an iPad Pro, assembled to support development of porting to a new processor. As they stated in the keynote (or one of the sessions) it's not indicative of an actual Mac chip performance. So it's interesting, but not all that revealing.

sq_ 6y ago
It's at least interesting that it's close-ish to current entry-level MacBook Air performance, even with Geekbench running under Rosetta. Seems like that would indicate that the real chips they'll be using in laptops and desktops will be pretty performant.
soneil 6y ago
For comparison, The Intel DTK was a P4, with an Intel GMA900 GPU, shoved in a powermac chassis. It wasn't indicative of the performance of the core duo & xeons they in the first-gen Intel Macs. The DTK is a minimum viable platform, not a product. (That's not to say I'm not hellish curious about some Rosetta2 examples that aren't cherry-picked!)
savoytruffle 6y ago
It's curious that it's possibly downclocked from the latest iPad Pro, although only a very little bit and that may not even be accurate reporting by GeekBench running in emulation. But of course the Intel mac mini in the same box has the famous pretty large fan. And the DTK still has the large vent opening on the back. So there is probably the same fan assembly in there — a first for an A_ series device.
- rbanffy 6y ago
  It's entirely possible the opening is there because they didn't want to build a completely new back panel
  - savoytruffle 6y ago
    The port layout is a little bit different (there are fewer USB-C shaped ports and HDMI is moved over). So it's different from the for-sale Intel mac mini anyway. They can certainly use the large aluminum housing from the current 2018 model mini. The plastic back-plate is pretty small anyway.

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It's also benchmarks of a slightly slowed down version of a chip intended for an iPad Pro, assembled to support development of porting to a new processor. As th

by coldcode 6y ago

sq_ 6y ago
It's at least interesting that it's close-ish to current entry-level MacBook Air performance, even with Geekbench running under Rosetta. Seems like that would indicate that the real chips they'll be using in laptops and desktops will be pretty performant.
soneil 6y ago
For comparison, The Intel DTK was a P4, with an Intel GMA900 GPU, shoved in a powermac chassis. It wasn't indicative of the performance of the core duo & xeons they in the first-gen Intel Macs. The DTK is a minimum viable platform, not a product. (That's not to say I'm not hellish curious about some Rosetta2 examples that aren't cherry-picked!)
savoytruffle 6y ago
It's curious that it's possibly downclocked from the latest iPad Pro, although only a very little bit and that may not even be accurate reporting by GeekBench running in emulation. But of course the Intel mac mini in the same box has the famous pretty large fan. And the DTK still has the large vent opening on the back. So there is probably the same fan assembly in there — a first for an A_ series device.
- rbanffy 6y ago
  It's entirely possible the opening is there because they didn't want to build a completely new back panel
  - savoytruffle 6y ago
    The port layout is a little bit different (there are fewer USB-C shaped ports and HDMI is moved over). So it's different from the for-sale Intel mac mini anyway. They can certainly use the large aluminum housing from the current 2018 model mini. The plastic back-plate is pretty small anyway.