We noted that the brand new M5 Pro and M5 Max versions of the MacBook Pro have a significantly different chip architecture to their predecessors.
While the M4 Pro and M4 Max models had a mix of efficiency and performance cores to balance battery life against power, the new models ditch the efficiency cores …
The M4 Pro chip was available in two configurations. The 12-core CPU combined eight performance cores with four efficiency ones. The higher-end 14-core CPU retained the same four
Prior to yesterday’s launch of the new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips , Apple Silicon chips had two types of core: efficiency and performance.
The M5 chips now have three types of core, with a complication caused by the renaming of one of them. Here’s what’s going on …
Apple silicon chips were a massive improvement on the Intel ones that preceded them for two reasons. First, they were substantially more powerful than even the best Intel chips at the time. Second,
Apple has supercharged its non-Pro tablet lineup by bringing the M4 to the iPad Air , but don’t assume that the chipset will perform similarly to the silicon found in the more expensive iPad Pro. In fact, the differences are quite pronounced, and according to the latest single-core and multi-core benchmark comparison, the M4 iPad Air can lose more than 20 percent performance because Apple decided to equip it with a binned SoC.
Before Apple’s newest slates go up for pre-
As it usually happens when new Apple products are about to hit the shelves, early Geekbench benchmark results are already making the rounds. Here’s how two results credited to the M4 iPad Air turned out.
As , two Geekbench test results surfaced earlier today purporting to be for the new M4 iPad Air.
Both list an iPad model identifier iPad16,11 (which corresponds to the 13” Wi-Fi + Cellular model), with the first test scoring 3,438 in
