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Comment by alberth | Hacker News Reader

Looks like an improvement over the M4 iPad of:

  Single Core: ~12%   (3679 vs 4133)
  Multi Core:  ~15%   (13420 vs 15437)

Which is in alignment historically with improvements from a new node improvement.

> since M5 will be on the new (smaller) 2nm node

AFAIK the M5 is still 3nm being produced at the TSMC N3P node.

Thanks, I updated my wording as such.

I frequently forget that the 2 nm naming has nothing to do with the physical size anymore. I hate that naming system.

From Wikipedia: Node name Gate pitch Metal pitch Year 5 nm 51 nm 30 nm 2020 3 nm 48 nm 24 nm 2022 2 nm 45 nm 20 nm 2025 1 nm 40 nm 16 nm 2027

I'm no expert but I think it's more related to the resolution of the photolithography process.