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My 2012 Thinkpad T530 with a core i5-3230m gets about 5000 on the geekbench 3 multicore test. That a 2015 phone gets 4300 astonishes me. I never feel like my th
by delish 11y ago
My 2012 Thinkpad T530 with a core i5-3230m gets about 5000 on the geekbench 3 multicore test. That a 2015 phone gets 4300 astonishes me. I never feel like my thinkpad is slow, so I can't imagine how fast that phone feels.
My highest praise to apple's cpu engineers.
My small fear is projects like the mill will not materialize, and we'll have a long-term cpu speed cap of about 4000 on the geekbench 3 single core no matter what we do, at least for the next 50 years.
- mozumder 11y agoThe best part is that the iPhone A* series is power limited, to about 5 watts max. They could easily double performance with a real power budget, by increasing clock frequency, bus speeds, cache sizes, etc. They don't even need to mess with the cores. The A9 cores could easily beat Xeons if they were ever given a server implementation.
- renox 11y ago> My small fear is projects like the mill will not materialize, and we'll have a long-term cpu speed cap of about 4000 on the geekbench 3 single core no matter what we do If I remember correctly, the Mill CPU real advantage isn't really about improving the maximum performance of a core (even if it has advantage also here) but improving performance/power ratio. So this could help 'reduce the gap' between a battery powered computer and a plugged computer, but not really improve on current plugged computer.