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Isn't almost every new Apple chip the most powerful chip Apple has ever built?
Most of the additional chip area went into more GPUs and special-purpose video codec hardware. It's "just" two more cores than the vanilla M1, and some of the efficiency cores on the M1 became performance cores. So CPU-bound things like compiling code will be "only" 20-50% faster than on the M1 MacBook. The big wins are for GPU-heavy and codec-heavy workloads.
That makes sense since that's where most users will need their performance. I'm still a bit sad that the era of "general purpose computing" where CPU can do all workloads is coming to an end.
Nevertheless, impressive chips, I'm very curious where they'll take it for the Mac Pro, and (hopefully) the iMac Pro.
Apple headline: New chip is faster than old chip. HN: 54 points Slow news day.
> 140W USB-C Power Adapter Wait huh? My current 16" Intel Core i9 is only 95watts. Does this mean all my existing USB-C power infrastructure won't work?
Maybe its a typo and they mean the Magsafe3 connector? I though the USB-C standard was limited to 100 watts.
Is it possible to dual boot windows with the new m1 chips?
Any indication on the gaming performance of these vs. a typical nvidia or AMD card? My husband is thinking of purchasing a mac but I've cautioned him that he won't be able to use his e-gpu like usual until someone hacks support to work for it again, and even then he'd be stuck with pretty old gen AMD cards at best.
The performance to power charts were comparing against roughly RTX 3070 level laptop cards.