Apple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32%
15 days ago by KoalaUnknown to c/technology
More cats in my dwarf fortress are never wasted.
Honestly, DF was the last time i thought about single core performance.
Cats are the best source of soap in DF :)
On the iPhone, sure, but it would be equally wasted on Android phones because who needs this much performance in a phone anyway. However, I expect them to also use it in next year's Macbook Neo, which is a surprisingly capable laptop for its price with even the A18 Pro chip. It also bodes well for the next generation of their M series chips if the A20 Pro is this fast... and there are TONS of people using Macs for real work. Code compilation in particular got super fast with the M1 Pro and I believe it's great for creative applications too, though I haven't really used those much myself. Creatives types gravitated towards MacOS even before Apple Silicon, especially video editors because of Final Cut Pro.
The more performant the chips, the more you can downclock them (or the faster they finish their tasks), the less battery they use
It should in theory be good for battery life
Theyre wasted on ipads with iPadOS too, maybe even more so than on iOS
It's also unfortunate timing. The most valued chips these days are the ones with high parallelism, for AI performance. If Apple turned its eye to GPUs, maybe they could challenge Nvidia.
Yes this right here the context the people are actually missing is that these trips are going to be proprietary to Apple products.
The last Apple product that I purchased was a iPod mini in 2008.
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All of this performance is wasted on Apple's closed hardware and OS. What a shame.
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