A20 Pro vs Intel Ultra 7 Series 3

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[–] 159 points 1 day ago (18 children)

All of this performance is wasted on Apple's closed hardware and OS. What a shame.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    On the iPhone, sure, but it would be equally wasted on Android phones because who needs this much performance in a phone anyway. However, I expect them to also use it in next year's Macbook Neo, which is a surprisingly capable laptop for its price with even the A18 Pro chip. It also bodes well for the next generation of their M series chips if the A20 Pro is this fast... and there are TONS of people using Macs for real work. Code compilation in particular got super fast with the M1 Pro and I believe it's great for creative applications too, though I haven't really used those much myself. Creatives types gravitated towards MacOS even before Apple Silicon, especially video editors because of Final Cut Pro.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 day ago* (9 children)

    More cats in my dwarf fortress are never wasted.

    Honestly, DF was the last time i thought about single core performance.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (7 children)

    I think Minecraft is single-threaded

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Hasn’t really been for years, and minecraft isn’t a terribly hard game to run anymore anyway.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    With the new vibrant visuals and ray tracing features on bedrock, midrange devices cannot keep up.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago* (4 children)

    Those are both GPU-dependent, and certainly not single-threaded.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

    Not sure, if it is a GPU problem only then it will just be FPS drops. But for my case, the game freezes at specific intervals and doesn't do any thing even if I tap anywhere on the screen. It may sometimes be even playing (the graphics) but I can't change items, probably because the CPU cannot handle something somewhere.

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  • [–] 1 point 19 hours ago (2 children)

    I don´t know what that total freeze is about, but I suspect it's something other than being behind on processing instructions. Does it only happen in wide open areas where you can see to the horizon? That's the only time Minecraft used to get laggy for me and I´d lower the draw distance and it would be better.

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  • [–] 1 point 18 hours ago (1 child)

    https://www.reddit.com/r/MinecraftBedrockers/comments/1vqgjgy/is_anyone_else_experiencing_stutters_with_vibrant/

    Unfortunately i have to link to reddit but as you can see, the GPU can handle the graphics. But if you do a certain action like switch an item, the game freezes. I think this could be due to a CPU spike.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    It's also unfortunate timing. The most valued chips these days are the ones with high parallelism, for AI performance. If Apple turned its eye to GPUs, maybe they could challenge Nvidia.

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