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  • looking forward to have this in a macbook neo

    also, i don't know much memory that chip has, but i guess the A20 Pro could also be viable for low-end macbooks air.

    edit: nevermind, just 12gb. still a good candidate for a macbook neo.

    by znpy
  • This is like the good ol' days of the x86 wars. Mo' cache, mo' GHz.

    I find it impressive that these pocket computers are running at almost 5 GHz now.

    by jnwatson
  • This is interesting because the single Core is even fasting that the M5 suggest the two 2nm chip might not share the same Core.
    by ksec
  • Also GPU test: https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/compute/compare/6874665?bas...
    by aurareturn
  • A blazing fast chip, even by Apple standards. Exceeds M5 iPad Pro in single core for a new record.

    It even surpasses the iPad Pro M3 on multi-core, so very capable indeed.

    All iOS devices on Geekbench: https://browser.geekbench.com/ios-benchmarks

    Also, a max frequency of 4.93Ghz according to Geekbench!

    by _fw
  • Absolutely massive improvement in CPU performance in a single year. Looks like TSMC N2 is going to be a very good node.

    +22% faster single thread

    +34% faster multi thread

    +40% GPU

    This is suppose to be the generation that Apple wants to fast forward because they want to put more resources into the M7 generation for local AI. There are no M6 Pro/Max/Ultra planned.

    by aurareturn
  • Very quick, but I wonder how much of it comes from the clock speed bump (4.93 GHz from 4.26 GHz, +15.7%) instead of overall platform IPC improvements.

    If it were largely clock speed, I worry we'll find that thermal throttling makes these numbers only generally available in the lab or very short bursts before the device gets too warm.

    That said, very excited for what that means for the Neo laptops with more thermal headroom once they get a refresh, and if it happened to be this chip. Though I suppose that is unlikely, as they seem to be adopting a strategy of using past-gen chips for Neo.

    by pachouli-please
  • I love the consistent CPU performance gains that Apple generates, always between between 15% to 30%.

    I know this is the standard since the Apple got on the ARM train, but for over a decade from 2008 to 2020 in the Intel world, there was very few significant gains like this. The best you got was like 10% and it wasn't even a yearly release cadance.

    by bhouston

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