By: juanrga (nospam.delete@this.juanrga.com), July 9, 2015 12:06 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Matt (matt.delete@this.nospam.com) on July 8, 2015 4:20 pm wrote:
> I hope David Kanter's predictions are correct but Intel's last shrink from 22nm to 14nm does not give any reason
> for optimism. You can see how much of an improvement Intel's 14nm Broadwell is compared to the 22nm Haswell
> by comparing equivalent MacBook Airs with these different processors. The current 13.3" MacBook Air with Broadwell
> runs at 1.6 GHz vs 1.4 GHz for last year's model with Haswell (a 14% difference). CPU performance as measured
> by Geekbench 3, Cinebench 11.5 and Cinebench 15 improved by 4% to 13%. Graphics performance as measured by
> Unigine Heaven, Batman: Arkham City and Tomb Raider 2013 is within 3% of Haswell. Battery life while decoding
> MPEG-4 played over Wi-Fi improved by 1.5%. Apparently, most of the power is consumed by the display so whatever
> power reductions were made in the processor don't change the overall battery life much. The only significant
> improvement is the number of PCIe channels to the SSD was increased from 2 to 4 so the sequential read speed
> from SSD increased from 750 MBytes/sec to 1500 MBytes/sec. Other than this change in the number of PCIe channels
> to SSD, there is no significant difference between the 14nm Broadwell and the 22nm Haswell versions of this
> notebook. The bottom line is that Moore's law doesn't seem to help for notebooks anymore. Unless Intel pulls
> a rabbit out of their hat and actually delivers the kind of breakthroughs discussed in this article, I predict
> Apple will switch their entire product line over to ARM within 5 years.
>
Didn't the last rumor say that Apple switches with A10?
> I hope David Kanter's predictions are correct but Intel's last shrink from 22nm to 14nm does not give any reason
> for optimism. You can see how much of an improvement Intel's 14nm Broadwell is compared to the 22nm Haswell
> by comparing equivalent MacBook Airs with these different processors. The current 13.3" MacBook Air with Broadwell
> runs at 1.6 GHz vs 1.4 GHz for last year's model with Haswell (a 14% difference). CPU performance as measured
> by Geekbench 3, Cinebench 11.5 and Cinebench 15 improved by 4% to 13%. Graphics performance as measured by
> Unigine Heaven, Batman: Arkham City and Tomb Raider 2013 is within 3% of Haswell. Battery life while decoding
> MPEG-4 played over Wi-Fi improved by 1.5%. Apparently, most of the power is consumed by the display so whatever
> power reductions were made in the processor don't change the overall battery life much. The only significant
> improvement is the number of PCIe channels to the SSD was increased from 2 to 4 so the sequential read speed
> from SSD increased from 750 MBytes/sec to 1500 MBytes/sec. Other than this change in the number of PCIe channels
> to SSD, there is no significant difference between the 14nm Broadwell and the 22nm Haswell versions of this
> notebook. The bottom line is that Moore's law doesn't seem to help for notebooks anymore. Unless Intel pulls
> a rabbit out of their hat and actually delivers the kind of breakthroughs discussed in this article, I predict
> Apple will switch their entire product line over to ARM within 5 years.
>
Didn't the last rumor say that Apple switches with A10?
