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This is very promising. The benchmark results are great, with the exception of the single core speeds. We just need non-Apple ARM to catch up in the single co

This is very promising. The benchmark results are great, with the exception of the single core speeds. We just need non-Apple ARM to catch up in the single core speeds across the board -- they seem particularly slow here compared to everyone else. Even Intel and AMD I think outdo Apple ARM now on single core. I think it is a bit of a shame that Apple's top of the line M1/M2 go to 24 cores and the rumoured M3 CPUs only go up to 32 cores at most. I think the Ultra should have 64 cores personally. Rendering and video people want that.

015a 3y ago
> Even Intel and AMD I think outdo Apple ARM now on single core. Yeah they do currently. But, if the single-core performance jump we see between A15 and M2 (same architecture), about 25%, can be replicated between A17 and M3, we should expect Apple to retake the single-core performance lead, as M2 is only ~8-12% behind. Its not unreasonable to expect a perf jump like this, given its mostly just shoving more watts through the same core architecture, and Apple's tremendous efficiency lead gives them more headroom to do that than Intel's 14th gen over 13th. Its also a totally valid question whether M3 will be based on A17 or A16. I'm not sure if we have strong rumors to point one way or the other. We'll know more next week.