A12x has 967,6 GFLOPS of GPU FP32 floating point operations.
The Xbox One has 1.31 TFLOPS.
Also, the Xbox One has 64mb embedded EDRAM which is much, much more faster than the DDR4 presented on the iPad.
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Apple Transitioning Macs to Custom Chips With 'Incredible' Performance Starting Later This Year
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A12x has 967,6 GFLOPS of GPU FP32 floating point operations.
The Xbox One has 1.31 TFLOPS.
Also, the Xbox One has 64mb embedded EDRAM which is much, much more faster than the DDR4 presented on the iPad.
Which defeats the entire purpose of this transition. In order to obtain the benefit of ARM one will need native ARM applications. I have no doubt many applications will make the transitions, especially the big boys. However there will be a significant amount which never will. Leaving emulation / translation as the only option.
High end iMacs (i9 level), iMac Pro and Mac Pro are the last that will get upgraded. And we will see updates to these in the next 2 years. These will be supported for 5+ years so you can still get a "next" Intel Mac.
ummm yes they will....
there is more to sales than just...they dont sell enough. its corporate customers who buy iphones and mac's. they will most definitley have custom chips. this is a chance to shine against x86 in a far superior way. the world is transitioning to arm.
they can drive the cost of a mac down when the R&D for chips is spread out over every device.
As I said above, go to the App Store top 100. Cross off any app that already has a Mac native counterpart, and cross off any app that provides mobile access to a full-featured web service (e.g., Netflix, Facebook, Expensify, etc.), and what are you left with? A bunch of crappy IAP-based games mostly and not much else.
No, they weren’t. I was there, in the UK, in Western Europe and Eastern Europe too if it matters so much to you (feels ad-hominem to me).
The world didn’t care much about the Mac then, and again without Jobs or Intel, history will probably repeat itself.
I really hope they name the Mac chips following the old G-series. G6, G7, etc. Throw some nostalgia at it.
They were running on a Arm CPU, not on a regular Mac Pro. Likely it was an arm daughter card In a Mac Pro case. Either way, what you were seeing was the performance of the Apple chip. Not some Intel Xeon.
Not a fan of higher performance and better battery life then?
I agree its a Desktop class processor I am with you on that, but what I would like to really see is Apple beating Intel on every account no matter how you do the benchmark. The likes of Linus on Youtube should shout ohh my god for a comparable processor Apple AX chips beats intel socks out of the water.
I strongly considered buying a new MBP for use in college but wound up choosing a new HP. Now, I'm glad I did. I prefer keeping the two environments segregated, excluding occasional data transfers/sharing. That way, if your Windows (or vice versa) needs change, you can upgrade that system (hardware, software, or both) without needing to consider the requirements of the other platform(s). It is a little more costly, and seemingly more complex, though I believe more cost-effective.
I think that new ARM laptops will have touch screens. Note the enlarged buttons and the expanded text spaces in the new macOS.
Apple did an excellent job of ensuring applications worked well during both 68K to PPC and PPC to Intel transitions. It was very seamless and painless. However performance was worse than on native hardware. The expectation being developers would offer native applications. Many did and many did not (likely as they were no longer in business)
There are basically two problems here: First one is that most engineering apps don't work in the Mac, and emulation is not an option for engineering. Second one is that, even if you admit buying a PC for engineering apps and then a Mac for the rest of apps, then you are locked into this new Bad Sur thing that behaves just like iOS (not only aesthetically, but in terms of user freedom as well). Putting both reasons together, time to move to Linux (and use engineering apps through VMware native performance rather than emulation).
Haha you are a dreamer, I would love that if it happens.
Indeed, hence my 2015 MBP isn’t getting upgraded any time soon.
My question however, is how can that seriously be taken as a legitimate issue for normal consumers?
It’s a dev kit. I’m pretty sure the intel transition kits didn’t have FireWire ports on them.
Apple is all-in on tb3. I was sceptical about the arm rumours in general but even I don’t think they’d just drop all tb3 compatibility
If a chip designed for a 2 year old iPad can beat intel's 2020 offerings, I'm 99% certain that a chip designed for a laptop or desktop will smoke it.
But to be honest I'd rather have a quiet mac as fast as an intel mac, but passively cooled, instead of a screamer mac, much faster than an intel mac, actively cooled.
There are some differences. These days everyone is using XCode, so it’s going to be far easier to recompile universal binaries. That’s why we’ll have Office and Adobe apps native on day one. Also there’s the entire iOS/iPad software ecosystem, running native on day one. Also we’ve got 20+ years of progress in software development. Also, Apple has more resources than any other company on the planet to help them pull this off smoothly. They aren’t the little underdog company they were in the 90s.
This might be the first time I posted so much in the last 10 years or so.Nearly 800 posts already...