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Same as a Cray XMP! That baby used 345 kilowatts. But comparing against 40 year old technology has nothing to do with comparing against current offerings. We'
by trimbo 6y ago
Same as a Cray XMP! That baby used 345 kilowatts.
But comparing against 40 year old technology has nothing to do with comparing against current offerings.
We'll just have to wait a week to see how it fares compiling Chrome.
- npunt 6y agoWhile it's Intel's latest, the i9-10900k is hardly a current offering - its yet another spin of Skylake, a 5 year old CPU design, and using a variant of Intel's 14nm, a 6 year old litho process. The i9 has a density of ~44mT/mm2 versus the M1's 134mT/mm2 (3x) The i9 has ~9.2B transistors, compared to the M1's 16B (174%) The M1 is two generations ahead on lithography and has a more sophisticated CPU design than Intel. It'll do fine.
- MrRadar 6y ago> Same as a Cray XMP! That reminds me of this classic bit of technology humor, the Apple Product Cycle[1]. It doesn't ring quite as true today as when it was first posted, but the broad strokes are still similar. Specifically it appears we're on the stage where "The haters offer their assessment. The forums are ablaze with vitriolic rage. Haters pan the device for being less powerful than a Cray X1 while zealots counter that it is both smaller and lighter than a Buick Regal. The virtual slap-fight goes on and on, until obscure technical nuances like, “Will it play multiplexed Ogg Vorbis streams?” become matters of life and death." [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20061028040301/http://www.misterbg.org/AppleProductCycle/ https://web.archive.org/web/20061028040301/http://www.mister...