Lunar Lake vs Apple M4 Macs - Is Intel Finally BACK?!

Intel has FINALLY revealed their new Lunar Lake SoC package, completely redesigned with a new x86 chip architecture built on TSMC's N3B process node. But can it compete with Apple's M3 & M4 chips?

Timestamps ⬇️
Lunar Lake Deep Dive - 00:00
Intel Tech Tour Invitation - 0:18
Lunar Lake's Biggest Advantage! - 0:56
Memory on Package - 1:31
XE2 GPU and NPU - 2:37
Lunar Lake Chip Architecture - 3:47
New Thread Director & Scheduling - 5:07
Skymont E-Core Architecture & IPC - 7:38
Lion Core P-Core Architecture & IPC - 8:50
Is x86 Finally BACK vs ARM? - 9:30

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[Daniyar]

Max Tech: - x86 is dying
Intel: - We intvite you to Taiwan to our presentation of Lunar Lake
Max Tech: - x86 is not dying

[disoriented]

Next video: "Why M4 Max will DESTROY Lunar Lake!"

[trankdart]

This is confusing. You say “the biggest advantage Lunar Lake has is that it’s built on TSMC’s N3B process.” But you’ve just made a dozen videos saying that Apple skipped the M3 Ultra because N3B, used in Apple’s M3, was just a kludge to mark time until Apple could bring out M4 chips on the TSMC N3E process, the “real” 3nm process. So you’ve established “N3B bad, N3E good”, but Lunar Lake has N3B as its biggest advantage? Which is it?

[chanyongjoo]

‘But….with few more sponsors, intel could last few more decades’ 😂

[ypmdjgj]

This guy is pretty shaken. They clearly flew them in first class.😅

[Cleisthenes]

So basically if you're in the market for a laptop like me just wait a year and skip meteor lake to see the true lay of the land once the reviews are in.

[darlokt]

ARM or x86 doesn’t matter on a performance perspective. The instruction set of a CPU is basically decoupled from the execution part of the CPU (from a frontend ISA perspective x86 even can have some advantages, which ARM has been tackling in v9 and beyond). A lot of legacy code is x86 and a lot of mission critical code is written for or optimised for x86, and as one knows, you never touch the forgotten black magic of legacy code. To get the industry to switch fully to ARM, it would need a very good reason to do so and currently it’s not there. Now with AMD, and more so Intel, getting their heads out of their behinds, ARM has a lot of headwind to adoption (even more so with AVX-10 and x86S), ARM doesn’t offer any advantages, only challenges to overcome and without an incentive, why do so. And Microsoft is in no position, compared to Apple, to force this and why should they. The only thing that could offer an opposition in the future would be RISC-V when it gets going on higher performance applications, because it offers interesting and lucrative benefits over ARM especially, if someone has the money for implementing it.

[tom]

Competition is good for the consumer. Intel x64, AMD x64, ARM Windows, ARM Mac. All good stuff. Thanks to Apple SOC innovation and AI there is a reason for the new chip designs.

[marcreginvea]

C’mon Maxtech, don’t leave out AMD man. Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm are all competing against Apple.

[isiahfriedlander]

X86 is far from dead, including in laptops.
Most business use Windows and specific software that run on this architecture.
Arm is great for the coder, editor and e-mail grandma, but x86 run the world...

[kaashayee]

Intel is reactive, not proactive. They should have done this before losing to Apple Silicon and Qualcomm. I would call this too little too late.

[mornnb]

It's not really about ARM or x86 but architectural choices.
Apple does wide and slow designs which have lower clock speed but more parallelism in their out of order execution engines. Lowering clock speed means less voltage and less power. This is Apple's trick while Intel has been focusing on thin and fast designs which consume a lot more power and generally is a better approach for Desktops/servers than laptops.

[nick-dogg]

Looking forward to Lunar Lake, have to thank Apple for all this innovation on the PC side. I will definitely switch back to Windows if I can get laptops that can provide 18 hours of battery life.

[RobertDunn]

Even if Lunar Lake (or Strix Point) do not quite manage to achieve the same battery life and performance as Apple M series or the Snapdragon Elite CPUs, if they come "close enough" (like 12-14 hours as opposed to 20), then this will make x86 chips more compelling than ever because they do not have the compatibility issues that ARM CPUs have (with niche drivers, PC games, etc.).

[gerardrosales]

I love how in the B-roll of Vadim talking, the MacBook was just sitting there like giving him a side eye or something

[Abel-Harland]

This is probably going to end up just like the Core ultra chips. Great on paper, not even competition in the real world.

[UpgradeLemonade]

This is really exciting! Intel is going to have a great year with Lunar Lake and Arrow lake, hope battlemage delivers big too

[robnewin]

The new AMD chips blow thease intel chips away especially in AI, cores, frequency, and I gpu….

[Reihenmotor]

What about heat, how much power needed to run, and battery life?

[akin]

Businesses currently using lots of X86 software are cheering for Intel and AMD if their performance and battery claims are 80% true. No business wants a massive overhaul of their software to ARM. Same for gamers.