[samspenc]

"40 TOPS is way too low", I'm curious about this, from what I've read, Apple's M3 maxes out at 18 TOPS, and the newer M4 at 38 TOPS, so to me it sounds like even the entry-level Copilot+ PC is going to beat Apple's M3/M4 family. Am I misunderstanding.

[wmf]

It's possible that Microsoft's target is too low and Apple's performance is also too low. However when you find yourself saying that the entire industry is wrong you might want to stop and think.

[jiggawatts]

An NVIDIA 4070 puts out 836 "AI TOPS" using 200 watts of power. So the 40 TOPS target is about 10 watts of power draw equivalent, assuming it uses a similar silicon logic tech to what NVIDIA used. With a more modern process, this is about 5 watts.

For an ultra-mobile tablet or laptop, this is... reasonable, I suppose.

For a desktop, it's quite a bit behind the current-gen tech, let alone "the future".

Like I was saying, this is aiming for where the puck was, not where the puck will be.

It's the same thing as Vista GPU requirements. Vendors will do the bare minimum that ticks the checkbox, but in practice it'll be useless garbage.

Modern AIs require > 1 TB/s memory bandwidth, > 128 GB memory capacity, and > 1,000 TOPS of compute to be really usable locally, not just technically capable of "running".