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by MAGZine 1273 days ago
i think m1 was a big boost because of risc--compilers have gotten really good, and cpu pipelining has been well researched/developed, so there was a lot of performance to be harvested by putting everything together.

gpus, on the otherhand, are already risc. so where is apple going to improve? not by integrating everything: lots of companies have done this for years and years. if you want to do more with the same transistors, you'll need an even more clever execution model...
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saagarjha 1273 days ago
This is not correct. M1 is designed to take advantage of being RISC, but that doesn't mean it was fast because it went RISC.
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MAGZine 1272 days ago
As opposed to x86 processors which are designed for cisc, but just not to take advantage of it?
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saagarjha 1272 days ago
No, they do. It's just that x86 processors are currently built by people who did a worse job overall.
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