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davio
on Nov 10, 2020
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Introducing the next generation of Mac
It's so weird that the cheaper Air is down a single GPU core - 7 instead of 8
coolspot
on Nov 10, 2020
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Maybe binning. Good chips go into Pro, chips with defects in one of the GPU cores go to Air.
davio
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Sure, but it's kind of a cheap limitation. 6/6 CPU/GPU would make more sense in terms of positioning the different models.
Up to .14x faster graphics performance for $250
foldr
on Nov 10, 2020
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The Air is fanless so may not have the thermal head room to make good use of 8 GPU cores anyway.
saagarjha
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Apple doesn't typically expose this kind of thing as an option during sale.
flyinglizard
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Maybe that's a fab yields play (binning, disabling cores with issues and sending them down to Air)
kbar13
on Nov 10, 2020
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binning i guess?
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