AMD Zen3+ vs Alder Lake vs Apple Sillicon for 2022/late 2021

[Kung gu]

The next generation of laptop CPU/SoCs will be here next year.

AMD Rembrandt Zen3+ will be built on Zen 3+, TSMC 6nm, and will include support for DDR5 and LPDDR5.
The iGPU will include support for RDNA2. USB 4 support will be added.

Intel Alder Lake 12th gen chips will be built on Intel 7 process(10++nm). iGPU will be maxed out at 96EU. Support for WiFi 6E, Thunderbolt 4 and PCI gen 5.

Apple Sillicon "M1X" will be built on TSMC 5m, 8 big and 2 LITTLE cores, up to 32 GPU cores and 32GB RAM. I will fill out more details when M1X releases later this year.

 

[leman]

I except Apple to retain a slight lead in absolute performance, a massive lead in GPU performance and a ridiculous leads in power efficiency for at least the next year or two. After that who knows.

Intel seems unable to fix their power consumptions issues so they are sidestepping it entirely (by offsetting the power-hungry cores with efficiently cores for increased throughout). Not sure what AMDs move will be. They currently have an advantage in process (thanks to TSMC), cache architecture and scalable high-end desktop (thanks to chiplets). Intel will close the last gap with Raptor Lake and their tile chiplet tech by the end of 2022. Unless Zen4 brings some massive improvements I am afraid Intels dominance in x86 land will continue.