> this changes everything
> As you can see, M1 Mac beats Intel Mac in every Lightroom benchmark across the board
Yeah, by a relatively small amount according to your own charts... It's still impressive, not exactly earth shattering.
> As you can see, M1 Mac beats Intel Mac in every Lightroom benchmark across the board
Yeah, by a relatively small amount according to your own charts... It's still impressive, not exactly earth shattering.
I think Apple is a huge threat to general purpose computing freedom, and I refuse to use their products. But hats off to their M1!
I don't see how, unless you see literally all proprietary operating systems as such.
Remember, iOS <> MacOS.
The $2600 32GB 2TB Intel-based Macbook Pro 13" is only $300 more than the $2300 16GB 2TB M1-based Macbook Pro 13", though. If you could spec the M1 with 32GB, it would probably cost the same.
As pointed out, if you go with 1TB, you save $400. As per usual, the upgrade prices are (in my opinion) crazy!
Intel have managed to squeeze an incredible amount of performance out of their 14nm (+++...) but it's at a cost and that cost was power consumption, they had no other choice with their DOA 10nm (hyperbole for affect :)).
Basically the reason why Apple abandoned them.
But I also think it's a little short-sighted to predict the next 5 years based on the past 5 years. Intel's Tiger Lake is remarkably good, albeit limited by production capacity (tops out at 4 cores and not found in many products). As an indication of what Intel is capable of, if they start producing CPUs on better processes (before your 5 year prediction), they are very likely to regain the status of at least competitive.
Intel themselves have said that they'll do 7nm around 2022-2023 - https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-announces-delay-to-7...
5nm is probably going to be 2024-2025 at this cadence.
And true, Intel's 7nm process might be somewhat equivalent to TSMC's 5nm process as far as performance goes, but at that point in 2022 TSMC will be doing 3nm, according to them.
https://www.imore.com/tsmc-lands-first-3nm-contract-apple-co...
So at the start of 2023, Intel might be at 7nm where TSMC will be at 3nm.
* For CPU design it's AMD, Intel and ARM players (Apple, Samsung etc)
* For discrete GPU it's really AMD and Nvidia, Intel may be moving into discrete but have traditionally only delivered on within an integrated CPU/GPU package.
* For manufacturing it's Intel, Samsung, TSMC, Global Foundaries.
* And major node steppings at the moment are 14nm, 10nm, 7nm, 5nm, 3nm (there are some less "standard" steppings such as 12nm, 8nm etc. but it's worth noting that these are somewhat marketing monikers at this stage anyway).
And so to find references you can pretty much combine these aspects to come up with the various articles.
I personally love nerding out on chip technology, no major expert just find it interesting to follow.