So Ultra used to be the max but now Max is max… until Ultra goes past the max and Max is no longer the max.
Until the next Max that goes beyond Ultra!
Until the next Max that goes beyond Ultra!
That all said, I only have an M1 and it's still impressive to me.
Think it's still quite far away from naming conventions of PC territory.
Now I got curious on what naming scheme could be clearer for Apple's performance tiers.
That said it’s far better than any PC scheme. It used to be easy enough when everything was megahertz. But I left the Wintel world around 2006 or so and stopped paying attention.
I’ve been watching performance reviews of some video game things recently and to my ears it’s just total gobbledygook now. The 13900KS, 14900K, 7900X, 7950X3D, all sorts of random letters and numbers. I know there’s a method to the madness but if you don’t know it it’s a mess. At least AMD puts a generation in their names. Ryzen 9 is newer than Ryzen 7.
Intel has been using i3, i5, i7, and i9 forever. But the problem is you can’t tell what generation they are just from that. Making them meaningless without knowing a bunch more.
At least as far as I know they didn’t remember everything. I remember when graphics cards were easy because a higher number meant better, until the numbers got too big so they released the best new ones with a lower number for a while.
At least I find Apple’s name tractable both between generations and within a generation.
This year's Zen 5 lineup consists of R9 9950x (has 16 cores), R9 9900x (12c), R7 9800x3d (8c with 3D Cache), R7 9700x (8c) and R5 9600x (6c).
Thanks.
The Max is their best CPU. The Ultra is two of their best CPUs glued together.
The Ultra isn’t a better CPU, it’s just more.