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> a $400 iPhone SE bests a > $3,000 top-of-the-line > MacBook Pro in single-core > CPU performance. Whenever I see these sorts of benchmarks, it just makes
by kitotik 6y ago
> a $400 iPhone SE bests a
> $3,000 top-of-the-line
> MacBook Pro in single-core
> CPU performance.
Whenever I see these sorts of benchmarks, it just makes me focus on how much iOS is the limiting factor of these devices.
- rubber_duck 6y agoWhen I see those benchmarks I wonder what they are actually measuring because it's very likely not general purpose compute.
- kitotik 6y agoGeekbench is a fairly understood metric isn’t it? It at least attempts to simulate ‘general’ workloads.
- eigen 6y agohttps://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench5-cpu-workloads.pdf https://www.geekbench.com/doc/geekbench5-cpu-workloads.pdf Looks like a variety of workloads, but lots of things that can be greatly improved with co-procesors. Like cryptography, image compression, image processing, etc. "Geekbench 5 scores are calibrated against a baseline score of 1,000 (which is the score of a Dell Precision 3430 with a Core i3-8100 processor)"
- rubber_duck 6y agoI don't know what goes in to the benchmark but if Apple had CPUs that outperform last gen 35-45W chip with a 5-10w one in a passively cooled 5 inch phone everyone and their mother would be reverse engineering their designs and building ARM datacenters. From what I've seen so far all the server ARM CPUs struggle to reach x86 performance.
- FrankBooth 6y ago> everyone and their mother would be reverse engineering their designs and building ARM datacenters Isn't this (more or less) NUVIA's strategy?
- lonelappde 6y agoWhy not? What's wrong with geekbench?
- millstone 6y agoThere's an echo of early 2000s here. The PowerPC G5 and mobile G4s were humiliated by x86, but the faithful (myself included) clung on because of OS X's strengths over Windows. Now Apple's CPUs are humiliating Intel, and yet again I stick with a Mac because of macOS's strengths over iOS.
- kitotik 6y agoHaha! Well put. I was/am in the exact same boat. I still have a fantasy that someday they will release some sort of “pro developer” edition of iOS with a proper terminal emulator and normal file system access. One can dream.
- Hamuko 6y agoHow usable would that single-core performance even be? Say that I got an iPhone SE and a 16-inch MacBook Pro, hooked both up to power and started doing some single thread video encodes - would the iPhone actually beat the MacBook Pro? My suspicion at least is that it'd start throttling fairly fast.