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A peculiar difference between the Pro and non-Pro versions is the A15 GPU: the Pro has a 5-core GPU, and non-Pro has a 4-core GPU. Besides that, this is as rum
by minimaxir 5y ago
A peculiar difference between the Pro and non-Pro versions is the A15 GPU: the Pro has a 5-core GPU, and non-Pro has a 4-core GPU.
Besides that, this is as rumored, except without the Always On Display.
- bredren 5y agoThis would be the first evidence of a single "series" of Apple Silicon with variant GPU cores. With a new M-series expected in an updated set of MBPs, presumably they are based on A15 and have even more cores?
- easton 5y agoThe M1 has it too, you can get a MacBook Air with a 7 or 8 core GPU.
- hedgehog 5y agoProbably the same dies with one GPU core disabled. My guess is the GPU cores are large (== relatively likely to have a defect) and also easy to isolate. Apple has done the same thing for previous processors and it's pretty common practice across the industry. Eventually yields will go up and they might either make a pure 4-core version for lower end products or they'll just remove that from the line entirely.