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by AnthonyMouse 676 days ago
> for example, the M2 shipped on TSMC’s N5P first as an exclusive but when Zen 5 shipped later on the same process it didn’t close the single core performance or perf/watt gap.

That was Zen 4, but it did close the gap:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/R9-7945HX3D-vs-M2-Max_15073_14...

Single thread performance is higher (so is MT), TDP is slightly lower, Cinebench MT "points per watt" is 5% higher.

We'll get to see it again when the 3nm version of Zen5 is released (the initial ones are 4nm, which is a node Apple didn't use).