Last month Apple released a bright financial report Both single-quarter revenue and profit hit a record high. However, Mac’s performance is not satisfactory, and its revenue of 7.16 billion US dollars fell 3.45% year-on-year. Apple may make more efforts in the Mac business this year.
A netizen named _rogame recently announced on Twitter that the new MacBook Pro 13-inch in 2020 will be It will be equipped with Intel’s 10th-generation Core i7-1068G7 processor, and it will be compared with the 2019 13-inch MacBook Pro equipped with Intel Core i5-8279U.
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According to the running score comparison chart displayed by _rogame, compared with the 2019 model, the new 13-inch MacBook Pro has a lot of basic performance improvements. The i7-1068G7 processor has a CPU score of 3876, which is 12% higher than the i5-8279U. Graphics processing power has also been improved. 3DMark’s graphics score is 29% higher than the Core i5-8279U.
The i7-1068G7 processor in the new 13-inch MacBook Pro uses 10 nm process technology, 4 cores and 8 threads, a reference frequency of 2.3 GHz, a full core turbo frequency of 3.6 GHz, and a single core turbo frequency. 4.1GHz, continues to integrate 64 nuclear display units. Compared with the current top ten models of the Ice Lake processor i7-1065G7, i7-1068G7 has a comprehensive performance improvement.
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Actually, the i7-1068G7 processor has not yet been officially mass-produced. Intel plans to release it at Starting production this quarter . This also means that the 2020 MacBook Pro may be the first laptop with this top processor.
The MacBook Pro is finally going to use a 10nm processor, and Intel ’s 10nm 10th Gen Core processor released last year is mainly for low-power thin and light notebooks such as MacBook Air, not high-performance notebooks such as Pro.
Last year, the Geekbench 5 database exposed a score of a the score of the new MacBook Air. Data , both the single-core and multi-core scores are significantly improved over the 2018 MacBook Air, and it is likely that it is equipped with the latest 10nm Y-series quad-core processor.
The Twitter user _rogame who broke the news this year was early exposure 16 Inch MacBook Pro is equipped with the information of AMD 5500M discrete graphics card, so his breaking news has certain credibility.
Just a few days ago, _rogame was on Twitter
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According to the information disclosed by _rogame, “Vangogh” and “Navi” in the beta system are suspected AMD product generations that have appeared in macOS Catalina 15.2 beta before, and the new “Renoir” is likely to be AMD Ryzen 4000 APU processor released last year.
But Apple computers equipped with AMD processors should not appear this year, but MacBook Pro and MacBook Air both using 10nm processors can be expected. The biggest variable may be the production capacity of 10nm processors.
In the past, Intel’s 10nm processor has repeatedly bounced tickets. Because 10nm does not increase the transistor density by 2 times in accordance with Moore’s Law, it directly improves 2.7 times on the basis of 14 nm.It couldn’t be resolved until the first 10nm processors were delivered in October last year.
Teardown analysis , Intel uses a 10nm + process, and improves yield through contact layout.
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And after mass production of 10nm processors, 7nm processors are not far off. It is reported that Intel plans to launch a ” large “GPU for high-performance computing with 7nm chips .
According to past experience, the initial 10nm processor may not be perfect, but for users who are waiting for MacBook Pro equipped with 10th generation Core processors, there is one more reason to expect this year. As for the 13- and 16-inch MacBook Pro series, which use 10nm processors, it may be until 2021.