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Apple's A12Z Under Rosetta Outperforms Microsoft's Native Arm-Based Surface Pro X
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Who thinks we might see an official Microsoft Apple Silicon version of Windows? It’s not out of the question.
Things like these make me wonder where the an Alien Spaceship is that they’re slowly raiding for „new“ stuff.
I believe the A12Z, with its 8 GPU cores, is better suited to drive multiple high resolution displays than the A13 is. That’s probably a significant factor for developer workstations.
I don't know, but I have no idea how Apple is going to know who benchmarked their machine unless Geekbench stores and publishes the serial #
And here we go again with the Apple vs. Microsoft performance disinformation wars just like in the PPC years...
I don't know, but I have no idea how Apple is going to know who benchmarked their machine unless Geekbench stores and publishes the serial #
They probably log the IP address, but possibly not the MAC address. Hopefully Apple doesn’t care enough to pursue them aggressively, it doesn’t seem worth it.
So if we look at the bigger picture here, a 2 year old iPad processor is delivering this kind of performance.
Apple are going to release ARM Macbooks with processors that are way more powerful than in that mini , which could be fanless , battery life will be at least as good as current MacBooks but likely be better with ARM. We will have native ARM Adobe and Microsoft Office, decent x86 emulation, and on top of this iPad/iPhone apps will also work on the Mac.
Thats one hell of a competitive advantage over some Dell, HP etc running Windows.
Then in the future these processors could maybe start to really perform way ahead of Intel giving running say Photoshop on Mac a massive performance advantage over Photoshop on Intel Windows the future starts to look very interesting. Then if developers start adding support for existing features such as Continuity to their apps, being able to pull an app running on your iPhone to your Mac with one click would make this whole Apple eco-system insane.
There is so much potential over the next decade and I hope it makes the Mac even more popular.
Apple are going to release ARM Macbooks with processors that are way more powerful than in that mini , which could be fanless , battery life will be at least as good as current MacBooks but likely be better with ARM. We will have native ARM Adobe and Microsoft Office, decent x86 emulation, and on top of this iPad/iPhone apps will also work on the Mac.
Thats one hell of a competitive advantage over some Dell, HP etc running Windows.
Then in the future these processors could maybe start to really perform way ahead of Intel giving running say Photoshop on Mac a massive performance advantage over Photoshop on Intel Windows the future starts to look very interesting. Then if developers start adding support for existing features such as Continuity to their apps, being able to pull an app running on your iPhone to your Mac with one click would make this whole Apple eco-system insane.
There is so much potential over the next decade and I hope it makes the Mac even more popular.
I mean, they parked the spaceship right out in the open. Made a bunch of noise about “constructing a new headquarters.” LOL. Hiding in plain sight, I tells yuh.
Probably underwater after dropping 40,000 ft. in 3/4 of a second
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Maybe but they clearly aren't running the same logic board and this is the A12Z, which I don't think has the same issue (in the iPP). I don't point it out as any indication of the performance of future consumer products. I'm more curious if it is an indicator of how Rosetta 2 is running (like R2 seems to ignore the low-power cores) or if the under clock is true for the system in general.
This is finally what I ended up doing. A Dell g7 7790 with a 2060RTX for gaming and a trusty 2015 i7 15” macbook pro for everything else. LOL. So many fewer headaches than I had with my dual-boot hackintosh...
128-core ARM chips (ARM Neoverse N1) already exist in servers, which outperform more expensive & power hungry Xeons. Apple just needs to base their silicon on existing ARM designs.
I doubt it. The fastest supercomputer is running on ARM chips. If you look, there are already several ARM-based processors that compete head-to-head with Xeons in server based tasks. Yes, Apple's professional computers are more media-based but Apple already has a leg up there so I don't see where they will be "catching up". There are some questions about which, what, and how Apple will scale up to those performance levels but it isn't uncharted territory. It is not a question of if they can just how will they do it (SVE2? stick with NEON? Custom SIMD? How many cores?)
If you run X86 dependent programs and a critical workflow, I wouldn't plan on upgrading right away. Even the best emulation has hiccups and not every program will ever get recompiled/updated, not to mention quickly. However, don't kid yourself into thinking the Xeons will rule the roost for four more years—especially since they already don't!
Oh you know exactly what kind of CPUs Apple has prepared? Even though all we have ever seen are CPUs designed for iPad and iPhone?
Apple says they want to replace their whole intel lineup in 2 years. I doubt they will release something that is slower than their previous offering.
Yes, hopefully not intended as software vendors exiting the Mac OS market... 😜
Neither the iPhone nor iPad logic boards were designed to run on a desktop. They are limited thermally by a lack of cooling. As a result, the SoC is limited to around 6W. The VRM components are likely designed for that in mind.
When you pair the chip with proper cooling, it will likely draw more than 6W.
The DTK is obviously not designed as a consumer product. But it makes sense Apple threw this together using existing parts so developers can start building software.
"Exist" as in 128 core chips were announced one week ago and will begin to be sampled to customers in Q4 2020 I believe? (To complete with AMD's 64 Core 128 thread x86 chips which do exist in servers.)
As nice as efficient portables are, it's nice to be able to run good, existing software too. Were it not for the real benefit of running iPad apps on your laptop or PC i wonder if the benefits of conversion would still outweight the costs.
Apple sell so many portables, and portables continune to be more and more in demand so perhaps even in spite of the iOS apps benefit, this would be worthwhile?
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