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runeks on Nov 17, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: 2020 Mac Mini – Putting Apple Silicon M1 To The Te...

But the Ryzen 5950X has 16 cores while the M1 has only 4 high performance and 4 low performance cores. So the Ryzen gets 4x multi-core performance with 4x the cores.

kristianp on Nov 17, 2020 [–]

I wonder if Apple will bother to produce a CPU with desktop-level TDP. That would really compete with the Ryzens.

runeks on Nov 18, 2020 | [–]

I really hope so. And I’d think they’d want something to put in their new iMac, which could be a CPU with 16 M1-cores resulting in a 100 watt TDP.

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