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174134RejZoR, 33 minutes agoTflops is not everything. And it hasn’t been for a while, especially with games. It’s moreNo matter how optimized the hardware and software combo is, Macs and games cannot exist together. Just buy an Asus ROG G14 and you can stop worrying about gaming performance on a laptop.
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imparanoico, 3 hours agoIsn’t 2.6tflops a bit weak in performance for 2020, compared to PlayStation 4 Pro released … moreTflops is not everything. And it hasn’t been for a while, especially with games. It’s all about the integration of software and hardware. I remember my old 8MB S3 Savage3D graphics card in 1998 and the huge performance boost it got in any Unreal game with S3 Metal API compared to Direct3D. I was getting amazing performance with a card that was on much weaker paper than RivaTNT2 or Voodoo 3. All these years later and I still remember my shock and amazement at UT99 running smoothly at 1024×768, which was a very high resolution for said card. And it worked like a charm. And that’s what Apple is betting on here. They adapted the M1 subsystem to have fluid communication with everything, CPU, GPU and memory, all as a single unit. In all PCs and laptops, each subsystem is connected with a much slower communication interface. And data is always mixed between these components. Apple also runs its own graphics API, which is much more integrated, as is the S3 Metal API with the S3 graphics card. And that can lead to insane performance increases. And because Apple owns the hardware and the software, they can make sure all the features are used right now. On Windows systems, we get all the great hardware and then the software takes years to catch up.
What I’m not so sure about is how far Apple can scale this. It’s one thing to make a super efficient chip for most portable devices. What I’ve been wondering from the day they announced this is if they can scale it up to now to replace the 28-core, 56-thread Intel Xeon chips in Mac Pro. And replace the brute force of dual Radeon VII graphics cards. That will be the real showcase. I’d be surprised if they could pull it off. But for now, I’ll wait for reviewers to poke at these M1 devices and hopefully compare them to Windows laptops so I can see if their claims really hold up when compared directly and to what exactly.
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Ali, 4 hours agom1 is revolutionary in the world, imagine you can run mac apps on your phone!I think it will not be the other way around.
M1 has 50% more transistors than A14
More performance cores
More robust GPU
All iPhone and iPad applications will be available on Mac. But it won’t be in any way.
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imparanoico, 3 hours agoIsn’t 2.6tflops a bit weak in performance for 2020, compared to PlayStation 4 Pro released … moreNice try to compare a ps4 to M1 xd
one is explicitly for heavy duty on gpu and it is not: D
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imparanoico, 3 hours agoIsn’t 2.6tflops a bit weak in performance for 2020, compared to PlayStation 4 Pro released … moreI have to agree that the GPU is disappointing, but considering this is their true first PC chip, it has potential, so if they focus on the GPU in the next iteration it would definitely be groundbreaking.
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Isn’t 2.6tflops a bit weak in performance for 2020, compared to PlayStation 4 pro released in 2016 AI 4.6 tflops or xbox one X at 6tflops, even PC 2016 with i7 and rtx 1070 will be at 7tflops?
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Excited for this development. A new kid on the block. Come on Intel! Be competitive!
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m1 is revolutionary in the world
imagine you can run mac applications on your phone !!
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I want this to be good, but let’s see how much of this is apple marketing clown party
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Is there a way to know how these chips perform compared to the performance of the i7 10th gen (6 core) on Macbook 16?
what I think ?
The entry-level Pro 13 now offers the same performance as the entry-level Pro 16 (if not more)
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Maybe Intel will improve its game a bit now.
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