Now, of course, everything I have said about future M1 upgrades is pure speculation on my part, based on my ARM fan boy fixation, that has led to a LOT of research on anything ARM related.Ī while back I read the account of the booting of the first test computer with an ARM cpu. It likely will be the fastest chip comercially available, and have graphics performance equal to or better than any discrete graphics cards. You could wait and buy one of these to game on. This will be put in their high end IMacs, and the Mac Pro. Sometime, in the next 18 months, Apple will come out with the 3rd iteration of the M1 chip. If you want to game on the Mac, wait for these to come out. It will completely destroy the idea that you cant have good gaming on an APU. This "M1b" chip will have integrated graphics, BUT, it will have the GPU power of a modern discrete GPU, exactly how powerful, I dont know, but likely somewhere around a nvidia 2060. It will be put in the high end Mac Minis. It will be put in the high end Mac Book Pros. It will likely be a compromise, some power efficiency, some compute power. This chip will NOT be focused on pure power efficiency. Sometime in 20201, most likely in Spring 2021, Apple will come out with the next iteration of the M1. I would NOT get a current M1 mac to game on, its a 10 watt TDP chip, after all. It is as much or more powerful performance than AMD's best APU, which I believe is a 60 watt TDP chip.Īs far as gaming, yes, a nvidia 1050 ti is good enough for many games at low settings.īUT Path of Exile does not have a ARM version, nor is it likely to happen in any time soon, and running PoE on emulation, on the equivalent of a nvidia 1050 it, is gonna be a HORRIBLE experience. This is ASTONISHING, as the M1 is a 10 Watt TDP chip. It has leaked from Apple, that they did not plan on putting it in a Mac Mini, but the M1 was massively out performing their own internal expectations, so they decided it was powerful enough to put in the Mac Mini.Īccording to many independent testers, the GPU in the M1 tests out similarly to a nvidia 1050 ti. This first iteration of the M1 is a super low power chip, designed for laptops. This integration of nearly all motherboard functions onto one chip allows it to perform far better than similar components arrayed traditionally on a old motherboard. The M1 has memory, a CPU, the GPU, a dedicated machine learning module (of 16 cores no less), and some other modules that do encoding, secruity, and more. The first thing to know, is that the M1 is NOT just a move to ARM, it is more importantly a revolutionary change in how computers are made. I have been reading many many technical articles on the M1. I have been watching dozens of hours of reviews. So I have been following Apple's transition to ARM in their computers. I have even tried in the past to use a ARM desktop computer (fail!) The M1 chip is not like ANY chip ever made, and should not be compared to any previous APU.įYI, I am NOT an Apple fan boy, I am an ARM fan boy.
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