| >The M2 core is probably in the same ballpark as Zen 4 core, likely a tiny bit below. The 7950x is running at 5.7Ghz when only a single thread is saturated. The M2 Ultra caps its cores at 3.5Ghz. A 62% higher clock speed, at a monster power profile, to barely beat it isn't evidence of a core advantage. >24 M2 cores manage to beat 16 Zen 4 cores also at lower power The M2 ultra has 16 real cores, with 8 additional efficiency cores that are very low performance. And of course the M2 Ultra could pretty handily trounce the 7950x because the latter has to dramatically scale back the clock speed, as the power profile of all 16 cores at 5.7Ghz would melt the chip. And of course the 7950x has hyper-threading and hardware for mini-versions of 16 more cores, so in a way it has more cores than the Apple chip. >This doesn't account for the AVX512 of Zen4. AVX512 is used by a tiny, minuscule fraction of computers ever in their history of existence. It is the most absolute non-factor going. I mean...in an ideal world Apple would get the GPU off the core. It limits their core and power profile, and takes up a huge amount of die space. They could then individually mega-size the GPU and the CPU. They could investigate mega interconnects like nvidia's latest instead of trying to jam everything together. Was Apple correct to call it the most powerful chip? Certainly not. And there is a huge price penalty. But they're hugely, ridiculously powerful machines that will never leave the user wanting. |
But also as users, some were expecting the M series are so good that they are going to take many markets by storm. And it seems it is not happening.