Apple has played the M1 game so damn well it's really hard to tease out the core performance improvements. Still hoping someone does a deep dive into instruction timings, memory bandwidth, latencies, energy usage, etc.
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The M1 Mac release is just such a huge pile of little improvements *all around*, some of which would be almost certainly possible on previous x86 chips too, that it's really hard to get at the details. I hope someone does.
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Just remember, there's no such thing as magic. There's good engineering, and there's *caring*. The former is often hard to come across these days, and the latter is, well, increasingly rare. Apple has managed to find a bunch of both for the M1 Macs, and it shows.
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do you think that ARM is the future?
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I've always been of the opinion that x86 was carrying around too much legacy garbage and I'd love something saner like ARM or PowerPC to take off (ISA-wise), but it *seemed* AMD and Intel had managed to mostly make the "x86 tax" irrelevant recently.
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Handbrake is just an ffmpeg frontend, right? How much of that is already done by ffmpeg for other ARM arches?
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I honestly came out impressed. It beats the hell out of my 3900X on certain SC tasks. I wanna know how they did it. That said a lot of people are acting like the gap is unsurmountable... I know amd64 is a crufty ISA with a lot of legacy, but even latest gen AMD is only TSMC 7nm.
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“Ah, RISC. RISC is good.”
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The best marketing trick is always making a ton of hard, grueling work look like magic.
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