M1-M5, Which Macbook Improved the most - Geekerwan

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lutel@reddit

M1, it was incredible jump in efficiency and performance over x86, to this day I'm using M1 macbook air as my primary workstation (development).

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Polar_Banny@reddit

I wonder why Spec2017 is not a thing when testing such SoCs cause these marketing benchmarks are useless.

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Hour_Firefighter_707@reddit

They’ve already done Spec2017 testing on the M5 in the MacBook Pro chassis. No point redoing it here.

Go and look at that video for those numbers. Spoiler alert, better than anything x86 by some distance

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DerpSenpai@reddit

The Snapdragon 8 Elite, a 1 year old and 6 months SoC is faster in SPEC INT than every x86 laptop chip, Apple is even faster than that lol

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996forever@reddit

And AMD thinks they can rely on a rebrand this year, it’s pathetic.

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DerpSenpai@reddit

They need yearly cadence for Zen or simply stop trying to compete. Zen 6 won't reach X2 Elite CPU in Single Core. So a phone chip from now will be faster in ST than a 2027 product...

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R-ten-K@reddit

Intel/AMD are starting to look a bit like IBM /DEC did when micros displaced minis/mainframes. Now it’s mobile SoCs driving that shift.

Where volume and margins align, integration and performance tend to follow. That’s where the investment goes.

Right now, a lot of that momentum is with ARM vendors. Revenue attracts talent, talent builds better designs.

And that’s how we end up with phone-class cores outperforming, traditional high-end desktop parts...

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DerpSenpai@reddit

All thanks to Apple. Because Apple is pushing the envelope, QC was forced to follow, ARM too

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996forever@reddit

We’re looking at 2.5 year cadence for mobile Ryzen now it’s hilarious. Zen 5 APU came out in July 2024.

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spicesucker@reddit

I lowkey resent AMD for what they did to ATI/Radeon and the GPU market.

AMD overextended themselves buying ATI, released a series of absolute lemon CPUs for years, spun off their fabs, then siphoned significant amounts of Radeon’s profits and R&D to fund Ryzen.

Their last actual competitive GPUs were the R9 290 / 480 - even then nobody could buy them because AMD did nothing to try and combat scalpers during the mining crazes. Fury aged like milk and the following RDNA GPUs have been an inferior product to what Nvidia offer.

AMD sacrificed a 37% market share in the now massive GPU market to obtain a ~40% share of the shrinking x86 CPU market.

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R-ten-K@reddit

AMD didn't "overextend" themselves by buying ATI. They had cash and needed to expand, their original goal was NVIDIA. Screwing up that deal was in hindsight a monumental mistake.

The fabs had to be spun no matter what. By the turn of the century it was clear they simply could not afford to do a full vertical design and fabrication stack.

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