Comment by kuschku 7 days ago
For an apples to apples comparison, you'll need to compare Zen 5 with M3, or whatever Zen 6 is going to be with M4.
Apple is paying for exclusive access to TSMC's next node. That improves their final products, but doesn't make their architecture inherently better.
Why would a consumer care about what node something is on? You should only care about a set of processors that is available in the market at the same time. The M4 is available now and Zen 6 is not. Once zen 6 is here we probably have an M5.
Where can I buy an M4? I don't care about the rest of Apple's products, but the chips are pretty sweet.
Is this a serious question? Apple.com and basically every computer part store.
The question wasn't entirely serious, no. My point is: afaik the M processors aren't actually available on the market, they only come as one component of a much more expensive product.
I don't mean to take away from how impressive they are.
Do you though? M4 is what is on the market now and this chip is just coming out. Maybe they are on different processes, but you still have to compare things at a given point in time.