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Benchmarks often don't tell the whole story. I remember a similar headline from a couple years ago lauding the Nexus 9 for having comparable benchmarks to a Mac

Benchmarks often don't tell the whole story. I remember a similar headline from a couple years ago lauding the Nexus 9 for having comparable benchmarks to a Macbook Pro: https://9to5google.com/2014/10/16/nexus-9-benchmark-is-comparable-to-a-2012-mac-pro/ https://9to5google.com/2014/10/16/nexus-9-benchmark-is-compa... The device still got mixed reviews.[0][1][2] [0]https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/11/nexus-9-review-a-premium-tablet-with-a-not-so-premium-feel/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/11/nexus-9-review-a-pre... [1]https://www.androidpolice.com/2014/11/03/nexus-9-review-a-little-better-on-paper-than-in-practice/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2014/11/03/nexus-9-review-a-li... [2]https://www.engadget.com/2014/11/03/google-nexus-9-review/ https://www.engadget.com/2014/11/03/google-nexus-9-review/

api 8y ago
A major difference is in sustained performance, not peak performance. Mobile CPUs often have cores these days that are comparable to desktop/server CPU cores but they lack the cooling to sustain peak performance for very long. They're thermally throttled very rapidly. That being said you could take such a CPU and given it desktop-like power and cooling and it could perform like a desktop chip.
- Pulcinella 8y ago
  Yeah it would be interesting to see how the apple tv performs compared to an ipad over sustained loads. It has wired power and I think the 4K even has a cooling fan.
ksec 8y ago
1. That was using Geekbench 3, which according to Linus, "showing partiality for ARM64 devices and being a bad performance measure of x86-based system." Geekbench 4 released in 2016 is much better. 2. The "2012" Mac Pro stated is actually using 2008 CPU, with the lowest configuration.