Guys, this means M3 if based on A16 won't see ANY meaningful GPU impovement.
oh please try using a i7 3700K and a i7 12700K big difference. If we don't need CPU improvements we would be stuck on a 4th gen i5 as that was enough for web, email and video.
It doesn’t mean that at all. That’s the whole point of SOC design methods. The gpu is independent of the cpu.
M3 won’t have the same gpu as a16. I can guarantee you that.
ok then try using a Bulldozer chip and then a Zen 4 chip(when it launches, can't say Zen4 is junk
). Of course this is desktop but yeah I get what you mean mobile chips are enough cause apps and games are meh on mobile.
hopefully it won't but past M chips have always been based on A chips.
No, they’ve never been based on A chips. The way it works is there are teams working on CPU cores and teams working on GPU cores (under the direction of system architects who figure out how the overall SoC architecture should work for each product). Once a CPU core is designed, it is plugged into various chips, sort of like a lego brick. Same with GPU. Same with NPU, etc. The same core may end up on an A-series chip and a M-series chip (and by “same” I mean same pre-physical netlist. The gdsii won’t necessarily be the same). But saying “based on A chips” implies that they design the A-series chip, then say “ok, let’s now move this stuff over to M.” It doesn’t work like that.
Yeah I mean this. I know you can't just copy paste IP but the arch for the CPU and GPU was very mostly the same.
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Grrr…
I still think that Geekbench result is weird (due to the multicore performance, that the tweet ignores). I believe that at least that part is not accurate (unless Apple is doing something new and weird now). If the single core result is accurate, the CPU single core speed bump is smaller than previous years. Maybe Apple's chip designers spent their time in improving power efficiency instead of performance. Maybe they spent their time in other parts of the SoC, there's a new Neural Engine, which is a huge part of the SoC, and the new Photonic Something. Last year, for example, the E cores got the biggest overhaul while the P cores got smaller changes. Or maybe they just hit a wall and couldn't improve it further.
I for one blame CET.Why is everyone up so early?
It's 2PM here hehehe.Why is everyone up so early?
