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> The Apple machines are nowhere near the top of the line from this perspective. If you care about CPU/watt then the M1 looks pretty awesome. If you care maxCPU
by nordsieck 6y ago
> The Apple machines are nowhere near the top of the line from this perspective. If you care about CPU/watt then the M1 looks pretty awesome. If you care maxCPU, the M1 is currently not particularly interesting.
That is true today.
A very simple way forward for Apple is to follow in the footsteps of AMD with a chiplet design.
All modern CPUs so far have been thermally limited, so being really good at CPU/watt is a huge advantage. If they can package 2 M2 (next gen) chips in a package for power users and 4 for their Mac Pro, they could be on top of the world in very short order.
- michaelmrose 6y agoIf you want to compare apples to apples Zen 3 is supposed to offer 20% more performance vs Zen 2 and offer the same max 64 cores as current generation. Granted they are expensive with the current 64 core CPU part coming in at $5800 and the whole machine easily closer to 8k but if prices remain similar the top end mac pro will probably perform less ably than a machine based on the AMD part and cost about $15k. Apple will of course retain its crown as the fastest OEM of hardware that runs its own OS since it will remain the only one legally allowed to do so.