let’s ignore the fact that apple always improve their chips every year and fantasize that for some reason they’ve topped out at their current levels but at the same time Qualcomm will keep chugging forward and so clearly Apple is getting smoked next year
Of course they also do, but their gains slowing is what allowed these gaps to narrow so much, the MT lead is gone, the GPU lead is gone, and the single core gap hasn’t been smaller in many many years. And this was with them buying out the entire first run of 3nm. So it is fair to wonder if they ever make a big bound ahead again, or if we’re just at chip convergence, like the Zen moment where AMD and Intel have stuck pretty close on performance since. We’re used to Apple leading for the previous decade.
what a weird take
Of course they also do, but their gains slowing is what allowed these gaps to narrow so much, the MT lead is gone, the GPU lead is gone, and the single core gap hasn’t been smaller in many many years. And this was with them buying out the entire first run of 3nm. So it is fair to wonder if they ever make a big bound ahead again, or if we’re just at chip convergence, like the Zen moment where AMD and Intel have stuck pretty close on performance since. We’re used to Apple leading for the previous decade.