[cpeth]

"Apple may have the fastest processor, but Microsoft has the most comfortable tools. Both companies are not perfect, but if we must choose the lesser evil..."

It's very fast for a low power, laptop-focused processor and even then only truly excels at single-threaded workloads. It's out classed by AMD mobile offerings (4900HS and 4800U) in multi-threaded workloads on most tests[0]. If you step up to desktop processors, the top end processors like the AMD 5950X are in a different class of multi-threaded performance.

Don't get me wrong, it's an exceptional processor and incredibly fast for its sub-25W TDP.

[0] - https://www.anandtech.com/show/16252/mac-mini-apple-m1-teste...

[caycep]

This is simply a matter of adding more cores...I mean, I would hope the 5950x with its 16 full strength cores would be better than an M1 with it's big/little design...

[phendrenad2]

I don't think it's as simple as adding more cores. Maybe the M1 doesn't scale up nicely.

[SekstiNi]

Looking at the die shot [1], they have plenty of space for cores and cache if they remove the GPU. Surely it's not that simple, but I believe they should be able scale to at least 8+4 cores without large interconnect changes, and at that point they are already knocking on the 5900X's door.

[1] - https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16226/M1.png

[NewLogic]

I would suspect by the time that product releases, AMD will be allowed some 5nm fab capacity for a future Zen product release.

[MBCook]

We’ll find out this year.