Comet lake H is still using a 14 nm process, will we ever hear them switch to a 7 or 10 nm
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Upcoming 13-Inch MacBook Pro Models to Use Intel's 10th-Generation Ice Lake Chips
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Comet Lake H, my badComet Lake H is not the same as Comet Lake.
You don;’t like 14nm++++ ?
Comet Lake H is not the same as Comet Lake.
You don;’t like 14nm++++ ?
It comes with a lot of pluses!
I hope they find some face-saving way to add back a good, dedicated charge port that's something like MagSafe. I'm sure they can't put back the exact MagSafe port, but something similar they could sell as "new and improved". Because USB-C just sucks by comparison.
Performance isn’t the issue for AMD, rather efficiency. That is the one thing they can’t quite get a handle on when it comes to mobile parts. Someday that could change, but not today. I don’t care how powerful their mobile chips are if I’m only getting two hours of battery life.
Well, if AMD's claims hold up, they may have finally tackled that. 4800H, like Intel's 9880H, is the second-highest mobile CPU tier. Both have a TDP of 45 W.
In single-core, they do similarly. But in multi-core, AMD seems to scale about a third better.
4800h - Geekbench 5 CPU Search - Geekbench
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Intel Core i9-9880H Benchmarks - Geekbench
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If those benchmark results hold up, the other question is actual heat. Given that it's a 7nm CPU vs. a 14nm one (although TSMC's 7nm is more like Intel's 10nm), AMD should have the advantage here.
I've been on mine for almost six years, but it's getting a bit long in the tooth.
Ah, I see. Do you find yourself looking to upgrade in any new potential mbp coming out?
I keep looking, and then waiting. I'm usually on a ~4-year cycle (2002 iBook, 2006 MacBook Pro, 2010, 2014), but held out for several reasons:
- until the 2018 model, the max RAM was 16 GB, which was the same amount my 2014 already had. That's not very compelling. They fixed that.
- the butterfly keyboard reliability reports were troublesome. Sounds like they fixed that.
- Intel's Skylake-era CPUs are kind of a bummer. Unfortunately, we'll probably be stuck with those on the 16-inch for another ~2 years.
That sounds crisp. Very happy for you, I myself want a similar upgrade, except it will be my first actual MacBook, I have always wanted to own one except then, I didn’t have the money but I do now and I’ll probably splash on an overkill machine, if it lasts me close to a decade. I’m getting into CS, so I think it would help me either way. I really do hope we get much better specd than it’s current model though.
Chucker, do you have any insight on what GPU could we have on the newer 16” model that is to come out? Will it still be amd based
If you're wondering if Apple will move to Nvidia GPUs: probably not. We can only speculate why, but we know for a fact that there were a number of MacBook Pros (around 2010) that had Nvidia chips and suffered heat issues. Apple doesn't seem to have trusted Nvidia to do mobile chips since.
Do you think Apple would use AMD CPU’s for their newer upcoming MacBooks or will they still stick with Intel and would it really have an affect, I apologise for my many questions.
For the 13-inch: I doubt it. There's good Intel offerings.
For the 16-inch? Maybe! Because Intel won't have anything interesting to offer in that space for almost two years.
I wrote about that over here: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...2.2228208/page-21?post=28327886#post-28327886