Apple to replace Intel and move to ARM - *** Confirmed as "Apple Silicon" ***

LiE said:
% right it seems, with the fanless Air :D
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Clearly I was talking about the Pro devices. :D

It's the reviews and benchmarks I'm looking forward to. You can't really work anything out on the Apple site. Does 1 less GPU core make a difference? Will the M1 in the Pro be faster than the Air? As from a non-technical perspective, all the Pro gives you is a bigger screen, more ports and the touchbar.
 
Copying my other post here to save a click.

There are currently a handful of scores for the new M1 chips up on Geekbench, have averaged them out here.

Macbook Air - M1 3.2Ghz - 8GB - Single Core = 1689. Multi-Core: 7083 (4 tests. Note that the single core score seems to be sitting just below 1700, but there is a bit more variance on the multi core. Two scores are at 7400-ish, one around 7000 and one at 6500.)

Macbook Pro - M1 3.2Ghz - 16GB - Single Core = 1714. Multi-Core: 6802 (Just one test so far here)

iMac (27-inch Retina Mid 2020) - Intel Core i9-10910 @ 3.6 GHz (10 cores) - Single Core = 1251 Multi-core = 9012
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2020) - Intel Core i5-1038NG7 @ 2.0 GHz (4 cores) - Single Core = 1148 Multi-core = 4240
MacBook Pro (16-inch Late 2019) - Intel Core i9-9980HK @ 2.4 GHz (8 cores) - Single Core = 1095 Multi-core = 6869
MacBook Air (Early 2020) - Intel Core i7-1060NG7 @ 1.2 GHz (4 cores) - Single Core = 1140 Multi-core = 3080


AMD Ryzen 9 5950X -3.4 GHz (16 cores) - Single Core = 1628 Multi-core = 15744
Intel Core i9-10900K - 3.7 GHz (10 cores) - Single Core = 1410 Multi-core = 11069

Sorry not super hot on the CPU's to compare against, but found the stronger single core's to go up against...
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Within a few years these will be utterly beastly if there isn't any serious issues with any areas of performance. Could bring back a lot of professionals to the mac ecosystem. Maybe thier macbook pros won't be thermally **** as well with these new processors!
 
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...ook-release-specs-ports-reviews-b1721844.html

Apple knows this, since it wasn’t actually expecting these computers to be quite such a step up: even when he got his hands on the new computers, Joz says he “couldn’t believe it”.

“We overshot,” says Federighi. “You have these projects where, sometimes you have a goal and you're like, ‘well, we got close, that was fine’.

“This one, part of what has us all just bouncing off the walls here – just smiling – is that as we brought the pieces together, we're like, ‘this is working better than we even thought it would’.

“We started getting back our battery life numbers, and we're like, ‘You're kidding. I thought we had people that knew how to estimate these things’.”
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The issue with laptop webcams isn't the resolution, its the lens in front of it. Chucking in a 1080P sensor looks great on paper but the video still looks rubbish because the glass will be terrible. In the lid of a laptop where simply isn't the thickness needed to put in a decent camera setup, its why you have camera bumps on your phone, imagine that on a laptop!

Tablet devices like the surface pro and iPad have much better cameras because they are so much thicker.
 
Steedie said:
So browsing GeekBench this morning, and I noticed some new uploads that were done yesterday...

The iMac Pro looks like it might be being updated with Ryzen 5000 series chips

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/4670520

There are more uploads with, 5800x and 5600x specs
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u wot m8?

Will be interesting to see what Apple Silicon can deliver in a desktop and how that compares to Ryzen chips. Imagine they take the M1, double the cores to 16 and make them all performance cores.
 
I've just read about the GPU performance. In fact everything I've read about the M1 seems too good to be true.

Either Apple have managed to do the impossible, or intel really have been playing us all for fools.

Aztec Ruins

M1 - 203.6fps
GTX 1050Ti - 159.0fps

Considering my new Dell XPS laptop is heavy, hot and loud (I wouldn't call the performance blistering either) I'm debating if I should have held off for one of these.
 
Steedie said:
Damnit! :D Got excited there
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Me too. I was thinking more from a hackintosh point of view as I understand that using Ryzen on a hackintosh requires far more work than Intels processors so if it was baked in that would make things much nicer.

Doesn't make sense however as they are moving to their own chips so why would they simultaneously move to AMD.
 
TheOracle said:
I've just read about the GPU performance. In fact everything I've read about the M1 seems too good to be true.

Either Apple have managed to do the impossible, or intel really have been playing us all for fools.

Aztec Ruins

M1 - 203.6fps
GTX 1050Ti - 159.0fps

Considering my new Dell XPS laptop is heavy, hot and loud (I wouldn't call the performance blistering either) I'm debating if I should have held off for one of these.
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Should get an idea today hopefully if reviews drop.
 
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