The Apple M1 is the first ARM-based chipset for Macs with the fastest CPU cores and top iGPU The M1 is a massive 5nm chip with a whopping 16 billion transistors. For comparison, the iPhone’s A14 chipset has 11.8 billion transistors, so this is beefed up noticeably. This chip is still similar to mobile chips (and console APUs) in that it has a unified memory architecture – this means that the same memory is accessible by the CPU, GPU, I/O controller and other components without having to pipe the data through PCIe. The CPU is composed of four big and four little cores. The big cores share 12MB of L2 cache, the little ones have 4MB of L2. Working together, they are twice as fast as the “latest PC laptop chip” when limited to 10W TDP and if there’s sufficient cooling, they can go even faster. The GPU is an octa-core design too, totaling 128 execution units. This is the fastest integrated GPU, says Apple, rated at 2.6 TFLOPS – that’s faster than an Nvidia 1050 Ti, which only offers 2.1 TFLOPS (note: we’re assuming Apple gave an FP32 number here – FP16 isn’t suitable for computers . . #applem1chipset #applem1 #applechipset #techtorrent https://www.instagram.com/p/CHflb9QF4dZ/?igshid=1qdv3bluaiben
