Apple vs Intel - How Intel JUST LOST the PC Race! (RIP)
Ever since apple announced the transition to their own apple silicon chips ditching intel they have been in a huge feud going back and forth jabbing at each other with intel actually hiring the i'm a mac guy and then going as far as to hire apple's own engineer that led the transition from intel base max to apple silicon so they're going at it for the last couple of years
but it looks like apple is finally getting the leg up with some major changes to what's happening in the laptop chip world so let's get right into it but before i get into all of that let me go through some of what's going on with their chips right now to give us some context for what's about to be happening earlier this year intel unveiled their alder lake chips for their laptops which ended up basically outperforming apple's best m1 max chip in their 16 inch macbook pro now that's very impressive however they had to do it by using a lot of power in an antex review of the m1 max tom's hardware pointed out that when they were testing the core i9 12900 hk which is the best alder lake intel chip it consumed up to 94 watts from the wall compared to an antex review of the m1 max that only consumed 39.7 watts that's almost two and a half more times power to just barely be faster than the m1 max
but not only that we actually compared this i9 12 900 hk chip to apples m1 max but the crazy thing is we used the 14 inch macbook pro which is known to have a little bit of thermal throttling compared to the 16 inch and guess what in multiple tests real world test the m1 max was actually beating out the older lake in the ge76 chassis which is a thick chassis but the craziest thing of all was when we tested the battery life with the m1 max getting 20 hours of video playback compared to 4.5 on that alder lake laptop or 7 hours video rendering compared to only 2.5 in our testing and that actually matches the testing of tom's hardware as well because their macbook pro lasted 15 and a half hours compared to only four hours and five minutes in the same environment for the ge 76 raider the same intel laptop that we tested but now making it worse it looks like intel's upcoming raptor lake generation of chips uses even more power than alder lake for example showing off the different sizes of the desktop chips but of course this power usage is also gonna translate to the laptops as well
so they're gonna use even more power than they already do so because of that intel was planning to use tsmc's next-gen 3 nanometer process node for their future meteor lake chips but unfortunately once again it looks like intel is postponing and delaying it again because looking at the source trend force here's what they said they said mass production of this product was initially planned for the second half of 2022 but was later postponed to the first half of 2023 due to product design and process verification issues recently the product's mass production schedule has been postponed again to the end of 2023 for some reason almost completely cancelling three nanometer production capacity originally booked in 2023 with only a marginal amount of wafer input remaining for engineering verification so based on that
it seems like intel's not gonna have their next meteor lake chips ready until 2024. but here's where things get very interesting especially on the apple side tsmc came out and they commented on those rumors about intel canceling their three nanometer orders and they said that tsmc does not comment on the business of individual customers the company's capacity expansion product is proceeding as planned so yes it looks like even though intel is delaying three nanometer for their own meteor like chips tsmc is not delaying anything they're still pushing and planning the same capacity that they were gonna make anyway for three nanometer and i know why way back in april it was reported that tsmc was planning to start three nanometer chip production in the second half of this year which is 2022 but then in june we got this monster report from jeff poo saying that tsmc is going to start producing apple's m2 pro chip later this year which is going to be on tsmc three nanometer yes three nanometer not five nanometers
there should be and then after i made that video we got another report from digitime saying that the upcoming m2 pro chip for the high-end macbook pro and mac mini will be using three nanometer yes the same three nanometer that intel was supposed to use up but they delayed it and cancelled almost all of their orders and because of that it started sparking some discussion about the m2 pro and m2 max chip offering massive performance leaps over the m2 because a lot of people were expecting the m2 pro and max to be based on the same five nanometer architecture that the m2 is based on but
i disagree i think it's gonna be three nanometer and because of that the performance is gonna be crazy and a big reason i believe these next m2 pro and max chips are going to be based on three nanometer is because apple is gonna be essentially the only major company left to take tsmc's three nanometer capacity because intel cancelled so if apple doesn't switch to three nanometer early next year and they weights who is going to take the first wave of three nanometer basically nobody and tsmc has already confirmed that everything's going as scheduled they're not gonna delay three nanometer i think that's because the m2 pro and max are gonna be on three nanometer now i did speak to mark german about the next gen 14 and 16-inch macbook pros that we should be expecting and
according to him those machines are gonna have the same design on the outside so no design changes at all which means that the changes will be coming to the inside and in my opinion i don't think it's enough to give us the same five nanometer base chips i don't think that's going to be a big improvement because if you didn't already know the m2 chip uses significantly more power than the m1 in fact in cinebench we saw that it uses 36 percent more average power to only get 13 more score which basically shows that the m2 chip is overclocked like crazy on that five nanometer architecture and if you've seen our coverage last year of the 14 and 16 inch macbook pros you'll know that the highest end m1 max chip is too much for the 14 inch chassis yes it thermal throttles and it slows down performance when you have a maxed out version in fact if you get the 16 inch macbook pro with the 24 core gp
it's actually faster throughout multiple tests than the 32 core version in the 14 inch chassis yes that's because of thermal throttling it's not able to handle a heat so imagine if apple made the m2 pro and m2 max on five nanometer again which is gonna suck up a lot of power i don't think that's happening i think apple is planning to switch to three nanometer and because of that i think intel is in trouble because intel keeps delaying meteor lake and i think it's gonna take meteor lake to finally compete with apple silicon because raptor lake is gonna consume power like crazy they're not gonna have that three nanometer gpu tile so i feel like intel is gonna be struggling until meteor lake comes out and i don't think that's happening until 2024 so i think these next macbook pros that we're gonna get are gonna be insane they're going to be amazing the performance is going to be crazy and they're not going to heat up as much as they did before especially as much as if apple's stuck to five nanometers so if you disagree with me
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