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> Apple Silicon is optimized for macOS (and vice versa) > Apple Silicon is remarkably efficient (particularly under macOS) It is actually quite possible that A
by jeswin 4y ago
> Apple Silicon is optimized for macOS (and vice versa)
> Apple Silicon is remarkably efficient (particularly under macOS)
It is actually quite possible that Apple's advantage was more about being on TSMC's 5nm before everyone else, than something intrinsic about their processor.
> The fan-less M2 (4p/4e) in the Air with 8GB performs about as well as an air-cooled 15-28W Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U (8p) with 16GB on average (and vice versa)
The air cooled M2 MBP doesn't do significantly better than the fan-less MBA; so the results will probably still stand.
- hu3 4y agoFurthermore, it would be nice if both M2 and AMD could use the same TSMC transistor density. As I understand Apple bought out TSMC's state-of-the-art production and competitors are left with less efficient nodes.
- hajile 4y agoA13 on the same 7nm as AMD still beat it out in performance per watt by a large margin. The Air throttles after just 5-10 minutes, so anything requiring consistent high-performance will be adversely affected by the passive cooling.