On: Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series?

[Tuna-Fish]

> and the latency is half that of going out to a DRAM slot.

No, it's not. DRAM latency on Apple Silicon is significantly higher than on the desktop, mainly because they use LPDDR which has higher latencies.

[Remnant44 → Tuna-Fish]

I was going to mention this as well.

Source: chipsandcheese.com memory latency graphs