The M1 is a /great/ CPU, but it’s not the great breakthrough that everyone seems to think it is. Give AMD’s chip designers free access to TSMC’s 5nm process & put the memory on the same substrate as the CPU & it seems likely they’ll match or exceed the M1. It is more reasonable to compare AMD’s laptop SOCs with the M1 & there the latest AMD design appears to be about 90% of the M1 performance within a similar power budget, whilst running much slower memory.
(Also, AMD’s power draw quotes are much closer to peak power draw, whilst The M1’s 10W is more like Intel’s “normal power draw”. You can’t make direct comparisons between the two. AMD’s desktop chips have no such limits & therefore don’t bother optimising every last W out of the design. The M1 is designed around a specific power budget & everything is cut down to fit inside that target.
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