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snythetic benchmarks are notorious for being unrelistic and unreliable. just because there isnt an alternative dosent mean that geekbench is accurate, id be pr
by throwaway2048 9y ago
snythetic benchmarks are notorious for being unrelistic and unreliable.
just because there isnt an alternative dosent mean that geekbench is accurate, id be pretty skeptical of claims that arm chips with a fraction of the transistors and power budget are somehow magically just as fast as big full fat x86 chips.
- robin_reala 9y agoPower delivery, sure, but you’re off on transistor count. Wikipedia list a ‘Dual-core + GPU Iris Core i7 Broadwell-U’ as 1.9B transistors [1], and the A11 is 4.3B. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count
- throwaway2048 9y agoShould be noted the A11 is 6cores+gpu and the i7u is 2 cores + GPU. And we are talking about per core preformance.
- Dylan16807 9y agoCurrent x86 chips are spending huge amounts of their transistor and power budget on tiny increases in instructions per clock. When you have twice as many cores to play with then you can have better total performance with a lot less resource cost.