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Does anyone how and if Big Sur Monterey and Opencore will recognize CPUs with Big / Little core setups? There are already two CPUs with this configuration from Lakefield architecture, the i5 L16G7 and i3 L13G4. Both are 1 big core and 4 little cores processors. The Samsung Galaxy Book S laptop actually uses the Core i5 L16G7 processor, however I haven't seen anyone try to install Mac OS on it.
If there's any evidence of these processors working, this would give some solid insight to the upcoming Alder Lake processors.
There's also some solid evidence Apple will be releasing ONE MORE Intel Mac Pro at the end of this year;
The only question is, will it be using a processor with Big / Little cores? Would that require Apple to do a big overhaul of the OS to figure out how to distribute the workload across these cores?
I can think of three scenarios playing out with the announced SKUs (source):
If there's any evidence of these processors working, this would give some solid insight to the upcoming Alder Lake processors.
There's also some solid evidence Apple will be releasing ONE MORE Intel Mac Pro at the end of this year;
The only question is, will it be using a processor with Big / Little cores? Would that require Apple to do a big overhaul of the OS to figure out how to distribute the workload across these cores?
I can think of three scenarios playing out with the announced SKUs (source):
- The little cores get ignored, and using the flagship 8+8 big little core i9 setup would effectively make it an 8+0 core setup. You'd basically be limiting your processors performance.
- If using a Big Little setup isn't possible, there is an i5 processor with 6 big cores only, I would imagine this would work without any issues.
- None of the processors work with Mac OS and Rocket Lake is end of the line.