Apple's decision to build its own processors and stop relying on Intel has generated quite a bit of noise. The result of this strategy is currently unknown and only time will tell whether or not it was a good decision. Twitter user 'Apple RUMORS'has leaked some information regarding Apple Silicon processors.
Specifically, it has been announced that the company works on a 12-core processor. It is quite early to speculate on the characteristics of this new Apple Silicon processor and its performance. Possibly the 12 cores are not power, but rather a combination of cores. There is the possibility of a combination of 8 power cores and 4 efficiency cores.
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Apple works on a 12-core processor
It is early to speculate on the performance of these new Apple Silicon. When the first system based on these chips appears we will see a lot of performance tests. After these tests, we can see if this processor lives up to expectations or not.
It is speculated that this 12-core processor, divided into 8 for power and 4 for efficiency, will be integrated into the 13-inch MacBook Pro. This would be the first system based on ARM architecture processors designed by Apple itself.
The closest we have is the Mac Mini with an Apple A12, which we could classify as 'old'. This Apple A12 is based on 4 power cores and 4 efficient cores. According to the tests carried out with the Rosetta 2 emulator, at the moment only the power cores would be able to execute correctly. Despite everything, it has managed to outperform the Surface Pro X based on the Microsoft SQ1 processor.
Some tests seen at OpenCL would show that the Apple SoC iGPU would perform better than the GPU of the AMD Ryzen 5 4500U and the Intel Core i7 1065G7. An interesting performance for the A12X Bionic SoC dating back to 2018. We will see if the Apple Silicon A14 performs as well as we would expect, especially since it would be based on TSMC's 5nm.
