Apple Silicon was first introduced at this year’s WWDC 2020 main presentation, and the company claimed that the first products with the first chipset would arrive later this year. This is all the information provided by Apple, but luckily, we can trust a few tipsters to do the rest. According to one of them, the first Apple Silicon will be a 12-core chipset and we can already expect great things from it. Here is everything you need to know.
Previous rumors pointed towards the first custom 12-core ARM chip with a total of eight performance cores.
A Twitter user using the name ‘a_rumors0000’ claims that the first Apple Silicon will have 12 cores. Unfortunately, since Apple’s custom A-series chipsets are broken down into performance and efficiency cores, we don’t know what the configuration of this ARM SoC will be. We also don’t know what Apple will call it, but it looks like we will know in the future.
However, a previous report mentioned that the 12-core chipset would feature eight performance cores and four efficiency cores, and the first product is expected to feature this hardware as a 13-inch MacBook Pro, and development of the machine starts in the fourth quarter, 2020. The informant also provided no information regarding the type of performance we would expect from the 12-core Apple Silicon, but the benchmarks above may give you a little idea.
Apple silicon with 12 cores … 😎
– Apple RUMORs (LEAKS) (@ a_rumors0000) July 18, 2020
Take the A12Z Bionic running on the ARM-based Mac mini; Even with the chipset running apps through Apple’s Rosetta 2 translation layer, which is causing a loss of performance, it outperformed the SoC running on Surface Pro X. to its full potential. Not only this, but the A12Z Bionic’s GPU outperformed the Ryzen 5 4500U and Core i7-1065G7 iGPUs in OpenCL testing.
This may mean that the 12-core Apple Silicon will not only be an inexhaustible source of both graphical and graphical performance, but a smaller logic board footprint running on the 13-inch MacBook Pro means it will offer better battery life. battery than previous Intel-based offerings. While this all sounds exciting, remember to treat it with a pinch of salt and stay tuned for more updates.
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News source: Twitter (a_rumors0000)
