2026-09-28T11:19:32.499219Z

Apple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32%

www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/apples-a20-pro-shatters-geekbench-7-single-core-record-2nm-chip-beats-desktop-intel-core-i9-and-amd-ryzen-9-by-up-to-32-percent

Tom's HardwareApple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32%Eats Intel's entry Panther Lake CPUs for breakfast too.

2026-09-28T15:32:53.253406Z

0x4f1@0x4f1@lemmy.world

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All of this performance is wasted on Apple’s closed hardware and OS. What a shame.

2026-09-29T03:46:15.82995Z

nanometer1625@nanometer1625@thelemmy.club

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It’s also unfortunate timing. The most valued chips these days are the ones with high parallelism, for AI performance. If Apple turned its eye to GPUs, maybe they could challenge Nvidia.

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2026-09-29T03:56:32.048773Z

ayyy@ayyy@sh.itjust.works

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Their iGPUs have serious performance, but it doesn’t matter because they insist on stupid proprietary APIs that no real developer bothers to write software for.

2026-09-29T04:13:07.885928Z

setsubyou@setsubyou@lemmy.world

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If we’re talking about AI performance the software is there, and models often get ported to MLX.