Apple is reputedly developing a Mac Pro with up to 40 CPU and 128 GPU cores; new Mac mini with powerful SoC being worked on too

[Redaktion]

Apple is working towards releasing in-house silicon with up to 40 CPU and 128 GPU cores, Mark Gurman claims. The powerhouse SoC will make its way into a smaller Mac Pro, while the Mac mini will receive a chip with up to 32 GPU cores.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-is-reputedly-developing-a-Mac-Pro-with-up-to-40-CPU-and-128-GPU-cores-new-Mac-mini-with-powerful-SoC-being-worked-on-too.539981.0.html

[billy bob]

Cool a new cheese grater optimized for making pizza.

[Ariliquin]

Fantastic to see Apple excelling here. With their tight software and hardware design control it will be great to finally see software designed to maximise multicore performance, further distinguishing Mac from Windows offerings.

[t4n0n]

Both have performance and power-saving clusters though, split 16/4 and 32/4.

This is rather suspicious. Why would you bother with power-efficiency cores in a non-battery limited, performance device? That'd be like Intel gimping their i9 chips with Pentium cores...