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My point here is not to deny the achievement of creating your own chip design, but rather demystify how the M1 achieves its performance, and I believe it has ma
by janmo 6y ago
My point here is not to deny the achievement of creating your own chip design, but rather demystify how the M1 achieves its performance, and I believe it has mainly to do with TSMC's 5nm technology and the huge number of transistors.
If you look up here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
You'll see that the M1 is the first CPU/GPU (for computers) to use 5nm and one of the biggest by transistor count.
Considering those facts I think it is very unfair to claim that the M1 is faster only because of some Apple magic.
The Ryzen used in this test is also made by TSMC but using a 7nm process.
According to TSMC moving from 7nm to 5nm means 84% more transistors for the same chip size with a 15% speed improvement or a 30% lower power consumption.