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What is even your metric for this? Apple CPUs perform well because they are specifically tuned for their use cases with software stacks designed to go hand-in-h
by deaddodo 3y ago
What is even your metric for this? Apple CPUs perform well because they are specifically tuned for their use cases with software stacks designed to go hand-in-hand with them. Other than that, they are fairly generic fat cores with wide execution ports.
There are a plethora of benchmarks that fall apart for Apple processors, and they hardly compare to most x86 or Power processors when you change the TDP envelope.
As with any chip design, they're targeted for a specific use case and they shine in that realm. That hardly makes them "the best" and that claim does a disservice to a multitude of engineers at other firms with other design considerations.
- mhh__ 3y agoThat "specific use case" being power efficient general purpose computing is not a triviality.
- deaddodo 3y ago> power efficient general purpose computing No, that is not the use case the M cores are tuned for. "Power efficient Apple-based computing" would be a better descriptor. It's useful to keep the entire context of the response in mind, when replying.
- mhh__ 3y agoMost of my use of them is a web browser and a compiler, is that Apple based? It wipes the floor with my Intel &. AMD boxes. > It's useful to keep the entire context of the response in mind, when replying. Don't be glib.