i just had an idea , im gonna put it out there .What if , instead of apple creating another soc for the higher end macbook pro line and/or imacs & mac pros , they simply start stacking m1 chips together . The chips could be connected with something analogous to the infinity fabric amd uses . In a few months , say 6 months , when the 5nm production line matures , we could have an M1 with the same performance but even lower power consumption . Then use 2 of those for a 16 core , dual gpu 32gb ram mac book pro with double performance ( if it scales nice with multiple socs) and still under 45 watts total
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Apple Silicon M1: benchmarks and review for Mac Mini, MacBook Air and MBP 13 M1 and comparison with other brands
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Any update on virtualisation software like Parallels working on the new M1? Parallels has a blog post on November 10th on an “update under development”. No update on this blog thereafter.
@Henk van Ess, you started this thread. I was sceptical (and scored the poll accordingly) but have been proven wrong, fortunately.
After (still) some issues I actually do enjoy my new MBA M1 much more than my 15" MBP 2018.
With all the above taking into account, I am wondering how you as OP are experiencing your new M1?
After (still) some issues I actually do enjoy my new MBA M1 much more than my 15" MBP 2018.
With all the above taking into account, I am wondering how you as OP are experiencing your new M1?
Ken Case (@kcase) Tweeted:
Building one of our iOS apps from scratch, 3x, on Intel Macs vs. M1 Macs:
* Intel MBP (2020, 32GB): 9:58, 10:08, 9:59
* Intel mini (2020, 64GB): 9:17, 8:20, 8:23
* M1 Air (16GB): 5:49, 6:14, 6:17
* M1 mini (16GB): 5:44, 5:36, 5:34
Guess where I'll be building from now on?
Building one of our iOS apps from scratch, 3x, on Intel Macs vs. M1 Macs:
* Intel MBP (2020, 32GB): 9:58, 10:08, 9:59
* Intel mini (2020, 64GB): 9:17, 8:20, 8:23
* M1 Air (16GB): 5:49, 6:14, 6:17
* M1 mini (16GB): 5:44, 5:36, 5:34
Guess where I'll be building from now on?
I was able to side load both Wild Life and Antutu for people that might be interested. First time I ever saw over 1 million score lol
How did you manage that? Those scores are crazy. That 3Dmark score is on par with 1650 Ti Max-Q
There's apparently a workaround to run any iOS app package.
Here’s how to run any iOS app you own on Apple’s new M1 Macs
It’s buggy, it’s weird, and it’s kind of fun
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I am running a Mac mini so it is 8 cores. I think it says iPad 2018 because I do have one of those and when running iPadOS apps, it acts like an iPad.There's apparently a workaround to run any iOS app package.
As for 3Dmark, the system is recognised as a 2018 iPad (A12X), which suggests that it has a 7-core GPU. If true (and I'd like @donth8 to confirm), we're looking at a score >20,000 for the 8-core GPU.Here’s how to run any iOS app you own on Apple’s new M1 Macs
It’s buggy, it’s weird, and it’s kind of funwww.theverge.com
I have been running Civ VI on medium-to-high settings with no problem, save for other nation's leaders glitching out and fractured. No hiccups or issues whatsoever. It's so odd to play that game and not hear massive fan noise!
Ok. I realise that a score of 18000 is already a bit more than twice the score of the A14 in the iPad air. Which is very good considering that the M1 has twice the number of GPU cores and memory bandwidth. It may have higher clock frequency as well.
So, per Anandtech, M1 is up there with a Ryzen 9 5950 (£700-ish, remember) for single core. It’s not far off the best from AMD and Intel on multi core either. 4800h is better but it’s 35watt TDP from reviews I’ve seen.
Anandtech says “Apple doesn’t just deliver a viable silicon alternative to AMD and Intel, but actually something that well outperforms them both in absolute performance as well as power efficiency.”
it’s not bad at GPU either. “The first Apple-built GPU for a Mac is significantly faster than any integrated GPU we’ve been able to get our hands on, and will no doubt set a new high bar for GPU performance in a laptop.”
It’s unarguable that Apple’s lowest end, cheapest, computers are close to almost all CPUs in almost all regards, and superior in some important ways. They have the best integrated GPUs period, and equal or beat a lot of the best GPUs of the last few years. As ever, components that consume vastly more power, and cost vastly more money, are faster. But you get this performance for a computer that costs just $700.
Thats pretty damned impressive for your entry level machines.
Anandtech says “Apple doesn’t just deliver a viable silicon alternative to AMD and Intel, but actually something that well outperforms them both in absolute performance as well as power efficiency.”
it’s not bad at GPU either. “The first Apple-built GPU for a Mac is significantly faster than any integrated GPU we’ve been able to get our hands on, and will no doubt set a new high bar for GPU performance in a laptop.”
It’s unarguable that Apple’s lowest end, cheapest, computers are close to almost all CPUs in almost all regards, and superior in some important ways. They have the best integrated GPUs period, and equal or beat a lot of the best GPUs of the last few years. As ever, components that consume vastly more power, and cost vastly more money, are faster. But you get this performance for a computer that costs just $700.
Thats pretty damned impressive for your entry level machines.
and may be even better after the app gets ported to ARM, considering this is a CPU-intensive game. I'm not sure if it will ever get ported though, given how lazy Aspyr has been lately. But the the iPad version could run on macOS I suppose.