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Developers Begin Receiving Mac Mini With A12Z Chip to Prepare Apps for Apple Silicon Macs
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There was an article on here when the 6K came out that it tops out at 4K or 5K resolution. Again, I’m too lazy to look for it right now.
It's funny for me that this "thing" emulating a CPU gives little better results than given by my old and good boy rMBP 15" 2012.
Now we can imagine how could be the "real Apple silicon" features and performance. We can expect it will bring PCIe, USB 4 (with TB3 compatibility), and other desktop features added to the final silicon design.
You can run in 6K resolution, check out Max Tech's video:
Can someone with DTK run Shadow of Tomb Raider to confirm performance and that it wasn't running on x64 hardware since the device was hidden from view?
They have relatively limited seats. Which means this loophole does not exist. I wish it was that simple as well.
While it was meant as sarcasm, I should point out that this is just a wrapper for Safari.
do you really think Apple can design and engineer a world class chip but can’t figure out how to put thunderbolt port on it? Especially when we know they’re shipping out working minis with these chips? I doubt the minis have lightening ports on them.
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I think what you see is how many cores Rosetta reports to Intel code. Intel code assumes 8 cores = 8 fast cores. Scheduling 8 threads assuming they are all fast might be quite suboptimal. Not telling Intel code about four slow cores might make less difference. I would assume the scheduler is running on ARM and knows the truth.
yes, surely the scheduler knows. The question is was the benchmark running on 8 cores or 4, and if only 4, why? I highly doubt Apple’s plan is to allow translated apps to run only on The high-performance cores. I wouldn’t be surprised if the low performance cores are just disabled at this point, because they didn’t spend the time to optimized the scheduler for this fake machine.
To be blunt: I don't think YOU know what you're talking about. The T2 chip only exists because Apple doesn't make the main chipset in the Mac. Once the Mac is on Apple Silicon the functionality of the T2 will either not be needed, or it will be rolled into the main SoC die.
You notice there's no iOS device that ships with a T2 because the functionality is build into the system chip.
Not that I’ve seen. The last time, on the transition to Intel, if I recall correctly, the participating devs got a seriously good deal on a well-equipped Intel iMac. No guarantees they’ll do the same here, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
I do reading about it, I read through their eligibility and it doesn't seem like anything is mentioned as well. Right now it seems like a $500 fee to rent an exclusive ARM Mac for a year. But you are right, since the $500 is non refundable, they might announce devs are able to upgrade to a Apple Silicon Mac with a hefty discount with this.
It's related, and I don't know where else to ask this. Should we/would we expect with new Macs to come out with new chips to be in a similar situation where back in the days of Power PC G5s, where they moved from Mac chips to Intel chips, that it caused the situation where we had to abandon our PowerPCs with MAc chips becuase Adobe and others didn't support the old Macs and only supported Intel? Similarly, new OS didn't support old Macs beyond Jaguar?
As promised, here are the numbers, I was actually wrong. Actually 2018 iPad CPUs are pretty much up to par on all benchmark related scores when compared to MBP 2020 10th gen highest end CPUs. Even multicore scores are faster on iPads.
Geekbench interesting Scores, I have highlighted the ones I was referring to, but also left a few others to see the ‘relevant range’ of scores.
GPU - Metal:
Single core:
Multi-core:
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Excuse the weird aspect ratio, but again, to MacRumors people if you ever read this: on iOS devices either writing with the screen keyboard, physical keyboard or manipulating images is a frustration heavy endeavor... sometimes the text editor starts with an upper case letter after a space (not dot or similar), images can’t be uniformly scaled respecting it’s original aspect ratio, the ‘scale handles’ at the image borders do nothing and the only option to scale, which is via the box type-in values, doesn’t say what was the original pixel sizes per axis... if interesting in enhancing or full-on fixing, I can capture videos of each of those mentioned issues.
Thanks for posting this information. This is very interesting and along the lines with what I was hearing about Apple's mobile chips. The ARM chips will probably be very impressive in a MBP.
Yes, it's pretty meaningless. But it does tell us that an A12 emulating Intel with Rosetta 2 actually scores about the same as the current 3600Mhz i3 Mac Mini . That bodes very well for the future of Arm Macs.
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"Get Google ChromeiPads don't run Chrome
Download Chrome for iPhones and iPads.
Chrome is available for:
- iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch
- iOS 12 or later
- All languages supported by the App Store"
Please read the topic. The Google Chrome app on iPad is built with webkit, which makes it essentially Safari. The desktop version of Chrome hogs the memory, but on iPad that is not the case. So you were missing the point.
AppleInsider did the benchmark and took the clip from youtube within the hour es. The results were not staggering, but I’m not sure the DTK is build for performance and stand the test of benchmarks. Those machines are prototypes.
