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Doom and gloom for Apple is a common way to get clicks. The M2 in many workloads looks like ~20% increase which is certainly not a slowdown for YoY performance.
by matwood 4y ago
Doom and gloom for Apple is a common way to get clicks. The M2 in many workloads looks like ~20% increase which is certainly not a slowdown for YoY performance. Additionally, everyone is alway 2 years out from beating what Apple is selling today, ignoring where Apple will be in 2 years.
With that said, of course competitors can catch up with what Apple is doing. Doing things you link to is how, and it's exactly how competition works. We'll have to wait and see what AMD and Qualcom end up actually releasing.
- bee_rider 4y agoHow could we define a slowdown or speedup in YoY performance improvements, for the M2? It is the first successor.
- paulmd 4y agoDespite the M1 moniker, Apple has been doing in-house silicon for about 7 generations now - they started with A7 iirc, and M1 is part of the A14 generation, and M2 is part of the A15 generation. M1 is what would have traditionally been called an "A14X", meaning wider GPU than the phone-sized SOC. So there are basically 8 generations of YoY comparisons to make. M2 is not a particularly large jump as these generations go, but it's on the same node and it's actually decent in that context.
- bee_rider 4y agoSure, but since they've moved into an entirely different class of device, I don't think the A<n> series establishes a very useful baseline. I mean, scaling the phone/tablet type chip up to laptop/desktop class must have made them bump into some bottlenecks that previously looked infinitely wide. Depending on how difficult those bottlenecks are to clear, we could see some years with quick progress, some years with not so much.