Looks like I got a couple of my predictions right!
Processor Name:
From May 2021 (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/14-mbp-and-16-mbp-disappointing-launch.2294865/post-29862725)
Core binning:
forums.macrumors.com
However, some important ones appear (so far) to be wrong....
Based on A15 core architecture - looks like we're still using the same as the original M1:
From April 2021: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...acbooks-later-this-year.2293453/post-29827674
May 2021: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/14-mbp-and-16-mbp-disappointing-launch.2294865/post-29856209
GPU power:
Recent Geekbench 5 OpenCL puts the 32-core GPU at just over 60,000 - considerably less than the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU equivalent (c. 87,000) I had hoped for (at least in this benchmark - real-world results may be better of course).
Processor Name:
From May 2021 (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/14-mbp-and-16-mbp-disappointing-launch.2294865/post-29862725)
Core binning:
14" vs 16" MacBook Pro
This sounds quite plausible to me. It will be interesting to see how good the yields are on the SoC. They might even offer something a bit weird like 14 cores (i.e. twice the 7-core "binned" version of the M1)
forums.macrumors.com
However, some important ones appear (so far) to be wrong....
Based on A15 core architecture - looks like we're still using the same as the original M1:
From April 2021: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...acbooks-later-this-year.2293453/post-29827674
May 2021: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/14-mbp-and-16-mbp-disappointing-launch.2294865/post-29856209
GPU power:
Recent Geekbench 5 OpenCL puts the 32-core GPU at just over 60,000 - considerably less than the RTX 3060 Laptop GPU equivalent (c. 87,000) I had hoped for (at least in this benchmark - real-world results may be better of course).
