"...provide double the processing power of processors released five years ago."
Apple almost doubles their processor power every year.
Real question is if that pattern will continue now that they're at Skylake-like widths.
Now that AMD and Apple are both at convergent evolutions with Intel designs, maybe they all enter the aggravating slow gains phase. Though of all of them, I agree that Apple could see the most gains, they're only fighting with fanless tri-cores currently and could double down on cores.
Man I want to see a hexacore Apple clamshell with proper cooling...
"...provide double the processing power of processors released five years ago."
Apple almost doubles their processor power every year.
The A9X launched Sept. 2015 with 2 cores and a 16 nm process.
The A10X launched June 2017 with 6 cores (big.LITTLE) and a 10 nm process.
The A10X has 30% more CPU performance than the A9X. I have no idea why you think Apple doubles their performance each year.
Apples implémentation isn't big.LITTLE to the best of my knowledge.
As for his statement he did say Almost. In certain situation it is pretty close to double when the GPU can be considered. In any event that 30% is pretty real for mis users. On the other hand this article is very misleading as only one of those intel offerings hits 40%, most of those chips highlighted barely deliver 30%. Frankly Intle has been so misleading of late that I'd rather wait for a real implementation.
big.LITTLE is vague, i said it to allude to the use of 3 "big cores" and 3 "small cores" for optimal performance and efficiency in the A10X.
"Almost" isn't cutting it. It took Apple three months shy of two years to get a 30% increase. We're also talking about CPU performance here, GPU performance is a different story altogether.
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Real question is if that pattern will continue now that they're at Skylake-like widths.
Now that AMD and Apple are both at convergent evolutions with Intel designs, maybe they all enter the aggravating slow gains phase. Though of all of them, I agree that Apple could see the most gains, they're only fighting with fanless tri-cores currently and could double down on cores.
Man I want to see a hexacore Apple clamshell with proper cooling...
"Almost" isn't cutting it. It took Apple three months shy of two years to get a 30% increase. We're also talking about CPU performance here, GPU performance is a different story altogether.