True, but more modern i7's are not terribly faster from a single threaded perspective: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7003/the-haswell-review-intel-core-i74770k-

True, but more modern i7's are not terribly faster from a single threaded perspective: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7003/the-haswell-review-intel-core-i74770k-i54560k-tested/6 http://www.anandtech.com/show/7003/the-haswell-review-intel-... And the wattage being burned on newer i7's is probably still several times the ipad pro chip. I think this demonstrates that with a decent compiler (Swift for iOS), ARM chips can be reasonably fast even compared to x86. I really want an ARM or Power workstation...