> The chips here aren’t only able to outclass any competitor laptop design, but also competes against the best desktop systems out there, you’d have to bring out server-class hardware to get ahead of the M1 Max – it’s just generally absurd. (Anandtech as you linked to)
You’re making claims about hypothetical AMD / Nvidia performance at different nodes which are impossible to verify.
And Apple is clearly taking a huge risk by investing massively in the latest node. At the minimum they deserve credit for that.
They're pretty easy to verify. Find the average difference in performance at a given TDP and substract the efficiency improvement, this breaks down in single-core somewhat but not in multi-core.
There is very little speed differential between desktop and mobile single-core performance nowadays. The M1 Max is nowhere even close to the best desktop systems which would be the 3990X or the upcoming 5990WX. Despite having much faster RAM - which is the biggest reason why it can perform so well in FP workloads - in integer workloads it cannot compete. I'm citing Anandtech on their data, not on their opinion.
You’re making claims about hypothetical AMD / Nvidia performance at different nodes which are impossible to verify.
And Apple is clearly taking a huge risk by investing massively in the latest node. At the minimum they deserve credit for that.