Apple Announces New Line of MacBooks and Mac Minis Powered by M1

[TheLostSwede]

Anandtech seems to be 100% sure that this is just a (very weird) translation error.

Or someone that misunderstood the meaning of unified and assumed it meant HBM?

 

[SL2]

Anandtech seems to be 100% sure that this is just a (very weird) translation error.

I checked dk, de, fr, jp, au, hu, es, se, and ee (didn't have the new site), and none of them actually said HBM, only fi.

 

[R0H1T]

Maybe they meant (m)AIrfi, the memory's airborne

 

[dragontamer5788]

Please find that text on the English site, as I can't. Apple's reality distortion filter doesn't help either, as they clearly don't want to post any kinds of real spec.

Mac

The most powerful Mac laptops and desktops ever. Supercharged by Apple silicon. MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini, Mac Studio, and Mac Pro.

www.apple.com

Apple says is a 128-bit bus, which is far smaller than 2x stacks of HBM (1024-bit bus per stack). We can clearly see the two stacks of RAM: if it were HBM, then it'd be a 2048-bit bus.

64-bits bus per chip matches the specifications of LPDDR4.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Apple says is a 128-bit bus, which is far smaller than 2x stacks of HBM (1024-bit bus per stack). We can clearly see the two stacks of RAM: if it were HBM, then it'd be a 2048-bit bus.

64-bits bus per chip matches the specifications of LPDDR4.

Apple or Anandtech?
If you saw on on Apple's site, can you please share where?

 

[dragontamer5788]

Apple or Anandtech?
If you saw on on Apple's site, can you please share where?

Hmmm, seems like its Anandtech where I saw it.

 

[Vya Domus]

The die shot is from a slide Apple put up in the presentation.

 

[RandallFlagg]

Well if cpu-monkey is to be believed (and it probably isn't) :

- The M1 turbos all core up to 3.1Ghz, and single core to 3.1Ghz, not sure what this is about
- Geekbench multi-core score is about 3% under a 9700K, which turbos all cores to 4.6 Ghz
- Single core ties it up with a 5900X which has a single core turbo of 4.8Ghz
- i7-1185G7 (Tiger Lake) 4c/8t is within a percent or so of the M1 on single core, but has a 4.8Ghz single core turbo

Interestingly, the 4C TGL gets a 6102 on multi-core vs the 7220 from the 8 core M1. Presumably this is the 4 slow cores not pulling their weight so to speak in highly threaded use.


Reference :

Apple M1 Benchmark, Test and specs

The Apple M1 has 8 CPU cores and can process 8 threads at the same time. The processor was presented in Q4/2020 and is based on the 1. Generation of the Apple M series series. In the Geekbench 5 benchmark, the Apple M1 achieved a result of 1,742 points (single-core) or 7,650 points (multi-core).

www.cpu-monkey.com

 

[Darksaber]

But they did differentiate the SKUs, in a sneaky way. The bar model Air has 7 GPU cores, whereas all other devices have 8.

Right! I noticed that today - I don't think they mentioned anything during the launch event. I wonder why they are doing that? Seems like an odd choice, but I guess it could be for yield reasons?

Still numbers are pretty good - even those running on Rosetta. So my plan for M2 remains unchanged

 

[remixedcat]

Will DAWs other than logic pro work on them ... ?

Time to get some reading glasses. It's the GPU that has core differences, not the CPU.


No-one will need more than 16GB of RAM on these new Macs...

You do when you produce music. Bitwig takes up a few GB a RAM and even more when I load more VSTs.

 

[TheLostSwede]

Will DAWs other than logic pro work on them ... ?


You do when you produce music. Bitwig takes up a few GB a RAM and even more when I load more VSTs.

I guess I forgot to add /s