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So, all of these new Macs have the same SOC across the board? Or will there be slight differences like the Macbook pro will have a higher-binned soc or maybe th
by akritrime 6y ago
So, all of these new Macs have the same SOC across the board? Or will there be slight differences like the Macbook pro will have a higher-binned soc or maybe the Mac mini and Macbook air will have fewer graphics core?
- marricks 6y agoIf you look on the order page they're all described the same but the Air has different option on the GPU side of the chip, 7 vs 8 cores. It sounds like that is possibly the only binning they did, where one GPU core is disabled? Perhaps the 13" ones can run faster & more efficiently or something but they're not saying that.
- akritrime 6y agoThat is interesting. Both Mac Mini versions have a 8 core GPU. I wonder why they made the distinction for Macbook air.
- ValentineC 6y agoThe cheaper MacBook Air has a 7-core GPU instead of an 8-core one.
- lastofthemojito 6y agoMy uninformed guess is that those are chips where one of the 8 cores failed in testing, but allowing them to be used in low-end machines means they won't be scrapped completely. Seems incredibly unlikely that they produced a distinct 7-core GPU variant just for that machine.
- hanche 6y agoI wonder if the Air gets the chips with one faulty GPU core? They could just disable the faulty one and use the remaining seven. </idle-speculation> Edit: Whoops, I see I was not alone thinking that thought.
- hackerman_fi 6y agoPro has fans unlike air, so it’ll probably run faster
- bsharitt 6y agoThe Mac Mini and MacBook Pro have fans where the MacBook Air is fanless, so I assume there are some differences in at least boost clock and probably core clock too. I wouldn't be surprised if we see higher core count M1X chips next for the larger MacBook Pros and iMacs, and maybe even the Mac Pro.
- skohan 6y agoMaybe not the on-paper clock-speed, but likely the effective clock due to throttling
- mlindner 6y agoThere's some binning happening as the Macbook Air has a 7 core GPU instead of an 8 core one, but that's the only difference it looks like. Which would explain why Air has no fans but the MBP and Mini have fans.