I have an unscientific hunch that the Apple Silicon ones are going to be amazing and worth waiting for. The iPhone 12 Pro processor already beats the top of the line iMac's i9 CPU in single-core performance. Multi-core is worse but not a whole lot worse, and it's a mobile phone. Take that chip and scale it to fit a desktop PC, and it's going to be a lot faster the i9.Get a new one then, 10 core processors and 8Tb SSDs rock
Very interesting. Someone else said they would like the opposite of this, with Apple offering a basic, more affordable version of what we have currently. But I have to say that a HomePod sound bar with integrated ATV would be a very cool thing.
You forget one thing, these mobile phone CPUs are very tiny and build on 5nm production node (significantly more advanced) and are heavily capped in terms of power consumption in order to preserve battery. If you eliminate the battery constraints and you juice this CPU up to is full potential, the results could be great. And if you also adapt the ARM chip architecture to desktop enviernment/needs by increasing the chip size (cores number), in theory, we could have a winner. There are no advanced ARM desktop processors (for now) but by just by considering the power per watt performance we see in A14, it would not be a suprise that a desktop equivalent could outperform the latest i9.
I think there were some hints of it going at least iPad Pro levels of A-chips? Or was it me wishfully thinking, because that would be plenty of power.
True that.
How about just fix the bugs of the current?
HomePod soundbar, built-in Apple TV? Now that’s an interesting concept...
There are plenty of reasons that have already been enumerated in this thread, but my own is that the Apple TV desperately needs a more powerful CPU. I stream 4K Dolby Vision content often, and the most-recent-gen 4K Apple TV that I have can’t keep up. It routinely ‘drops’ audio as it falls behind, then after a second of silence the ‘Dolby Vision’ logo appears again.
If you care about privacy or Information Security at all, you won’t use the ‘smart’ features on your TV. InfoSec professional here, and those devices are a nightmare.
New iMacs were just released a couple months ago. Apple silicon for the 27” is at least a year away, don’t you think?
Care to @ me directly? I don't know what more to tell you other than wait for the chip to be released and see for yourself.
And even if you do none of that, the iPhone 12 Pro as it stands will do a single-threaded CPU-heavy task, many examples of which exist in the real world, faster than a top of the line iMac will.
Yeah yeah yeah, but if you juice it up, you come up against heat constraints. And thus why CPU clock speeds stopped increasing many years ago. It ain't so simple as merely "increase the chip size". You forget that there are already ARM processors (non-Apple) running in super computers, and their performance hasn't knocked the other players out of the market.
Apple is only using ARM's instruction set, and the rest is their own. Moore's Law is dead, but there are still gains to be made.
AS is the one you want I guess?
The A14 in the iPhone 12 has 2 high-performance cores and 4 high-efficiency (low-performance) cores. I'm hoping for more than 4/4 (high/low cores) in the first batch of ASi Macs (which would be in keeping with the configuration of the A12X in the iPad Pro), but I'm trying to calibrate my expectations.
Ah, 2 and 4 makes more sense given the scores. I'm editing my post, thanks.
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