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System Name | Mac mini |
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Processor | Apple M1 8C |
Motherboard | Mac mini logic board |
Cooling | Mac mini cooler |
Memory | 16GB |
Video Card(s) | M1 GPU |
Storage | 512GB |
Display(s) | ASUS Pro Art 27" |
Case | Mac mini enclosure |
Power Supply | Apple 150W |
Apple appears to have worked some magic on 7nm with the A12X. The performance seems to be really good, and that’s in a passively cooled enclosure. Granted, that SOC isn't aiming for 5.0ghz either. Still, it’s encouraging to see one large vendor having some success with 7nm already.Don't forget that TSMC's 16/12nm and Samsung/GloFo 14/12nm are really ~20nm if you compare it to the density of Intel 14nm and 22nm. On top of density, Intel's nodes have also higher performance.
So the transition for AMD to 7nm will be a larger jump in density than Intel to 10nm, despite the maximum density of Intel 10nm and TSMC 7nm is fairly comparable. And we still don't know the performance characteristics of the new nodes, which is important for clockspeed and so on, and this could go either way.