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This was on the same manufacturing process as the M1. There's generally a bigger boost when moving to a smaller process. But yes, there are diminishing returns,
by dougmwne 4y ago
This was on the same manufacturing process as the M1. There's generally a bigger boost when moving to a smaller process. But yes, there are diminishing returns, especially when you look at single core performance. Power efficiency and transistor counts are still increasing decently.
- sydthrowaway 4y ago18% is pretty good for the same process. So all these gains are from microarchitectural smarts only? Or a case of Apple presenting fab gains as their own?
- adrian_b 4y agoThe 18% is for multi-threaded benchmarks. They did not give any number for single-thread speed, so it can be expected that there the improvement is much less impressive. They said that the little cores have been improved substantially, so it is likely that a good part of the 18% comes from the faster little cores.