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This part always annoyed me. In particular there was a guy on reddit after the announcement of the Ipad Pro announcement who was absolutely adamant that no-one

This part always annoyed me. In particular there was a guy on reddit after the announcement of the Ipad Pro announcement who was absolutely adamant that no-one would need a home console because the ipad pro had comparable GPU power and the demos proved that. One thing he would constantly avoid though, was the fact that for short 10 minute sessions, that may hold true, but for extended play sessions the CPU and GPU would likely be throttled without any form of active cooling. Otherwise that's a lot of heat applied directly to the back of a very expensive display and none of the components will last very long.

close04 8y ago
> without any form of active cooling Correct, without active cooling basically every CPU or GPU out there will throttle after extended play sessions. The point isn't to compare an iPad to a workstation but rather an (Apple) ARM SoC to an (Intel) x86 CPU. The chip itself and the implementation in a device are different things. The intrinsic performance of the chip is what you see in those short bursts. The implementation performance is what you see in the long runs. Saying a chip is no good because it doesn't get enough cooling makes no sense. Anecdata: I have a laptop and a desktop both with Intel i7 3770 CPUs. The laptop CPU always throttles even without extended use while the desktop never does it. What's the conclusion, that the i7 3770 is much better than the i7 3770 because the i7 3770 won't throttle after long play sessions while the i7 3770 will?