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That’s basically it. Apple went big because the target process allowed it. To someone out of the ASIC industry, it is a set of interestingly scaled but pedestri
by foobiekr 5y ago
That’s basically it. Apple went big because the target process allowed it. To someone out of the ASIC industry, it is a set of interestingly scaled but pedestrian design choices coupled with some exaggeration (realizable memory bandwidth per core on the Max is a fraction of what you’d expect based on Apple’s aggregate memory bandwidth claim for the processor as a whole) and a very serious investment in performance/watt (legacy of the phone use case).
The Max has barely any improvement core-wise than the first M1. It’s going to be interesting to see what the real next generation looks like.
- GeekyBear 5y ago> The Max has barely any improvement core-wise than the first M1. Isn't that what you would expect in two chips that use the same core design? There is more memory bandwidth to the Max, and the system level cache is larger, so there are differences outside of the core, but the core itself didn't change.