According to Luke Miani, a content creator focused on the world of equipment and device repairs at Apple, he has tried to predict the performance of the next top-of-the-range processor of the company, the for now known as Apple M1X, where the company raises the number of cores at a maximum of 12 at a frequency of 3.20 GHz, being the most interesting that 8x of these cores are Firestorm (high performance) and 4x are Icestom (low consumption).
These cores would be accompanied by 16-core graphics that translate into 256 Execution Units @ 3.20 GHz with 16 GB of dedicated memory, while the CPU will be able to support up to 32 GB of LPDDR4X RAM @ 4266 MHz in Dual-Channel configuration. and offer access to the PCI-Express 4.0 interface.
This processor was estimated to deliver 1.77x times the performance of the Apple M1. Luke arrived at this estimate by comparing the differences in results between the A12 and A12Z (1.68 times faster) and the A14 and M1 (1.87 times faster) and then choosing an average for the M1X. Throughout his presentation, he makes it clear that these are estimates and conjectures that must be taken with a grain of salt.
Considering its 1.77x performance multiplier, Miani predicted some Geekbench 5 and Cinebench R23 results for the possible Apple M1X. The score of the first benchmark placed the Apple Silicon processor obtained 13,586 points. This would translate to being nearly 25% faster than the 10-core Core i9-10900K and nearly 30% ahead of the 8-core Ryzen 7 5800X. In fact, the Apple M1X would be -4.40% lower than the 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X. Luke stresses that he doesn't think Apple Silicon is ready to take on a CPU like the Ryzen 9 just yet, but estimates indicate that future owners of an Apple team won't complain about the performance.
The Cinebench R23 estimates paint a similar picture for the 12-core Apple Silicon, as the Intel Core i9-10900K and the AMD Ryzen 7 5800X are faster in this synthetic benchmark, but not by much, and also have a consumption of much higher energy than the Apple M1X, which is expected to reach a TDP of 35W for notebooks, while a "vitaminized" version of 45W may appear on the iMac of 2021 against the 105W of the Ryzen 7 5800X and 125W of the Core i9-10900K.
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