Tuesday, September 1st 2020
Apple's Custom GPU is Reportedly Faster than Intel iGPU
When Apple announced their transition form Intel processors to Apple Silicon, we were left wondering how the silicon will perform and what characteristics will it bring with it. According to the latest report from The China Times, the Apple custom GPU found inside the new Apple Silicon will bring better performance and energy efficiency compared to Intel iGPU it replaces. The 5 nm GPU manufactured on TSMC's N5 semiconductor manufacturing node is supposedly codenamed "Lifuka" and it brings Apple's best to the table. Planned to power a 12-inch MacBook, the GPU will be paired with a custom CPU based on Arm ISA as well. The same chips powering iPhone and iPad devices will go into MacBook devices, with the TDP increased as MacBook will probably have much higher cooling capacity. The first Apple Silicon MacBook will come in H2 of 2021.
Here is the copy of a full report from The China Times below:
Source:
MacRumors
In the past, Apple introduced Mac personal computers with Intel CPUs, equipped with Nvidia or AMD GPUs, but industry insiders pointed out that Apple has cancelled support for AMD GPUs in the macOS Arm 64-bit operating system, indicating that Apple will be adopted in the future. Silicon's Mac personal computers may use a GPU developed and designed by Apple. Recently, the industry has reported that in addition to Apple Silico processors, Apple's iMac desktops launched next year will also be equipped with self-developed and designed Apple GPUs.
According to relevant sources, Apple's self-developed GPU is progressing smoothly. The research and development code is Lifuka. Like the upcoming A14X processor, it is produced using TSMC's 5 nm process. Apple has designed a series of processors for Mac personal computers. The new GPU will provide better performance per watt and higher computing performance. It has tile-based deferred rendering technology that allows application developers to write more powerful professional application software and game software.
19 Comments on Apple's Custom GPU is Reportedly Faster than Intel iGPU
It's not like it fights Intel's iGPU fair or even that Apple started from zero. Also Intel's iGPUs until now, where never targeting performance. Only features, like support for video codecs and Quicksync.
Even the Chinese version isn't any betterVague, I don't see this as definitive expression that indicate Apple GPU being faster than Intel iGPU, I mean, not everyone use MAC purely for compute, some people like to play some casual game too.
Seriously?
WTF isssssuppwitdat ????
We have a 10-man graphics team about half of who use Mac but cannot do their job without access to Windows as well. Their personal machines are all bootcamp unless they have multiple devices.
The first people who would clamor for that would be the productivity users, people doing encoding / decoding and video editing. Apple will steal those vertical markets first.