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When its running on a iPad pro chip? It's pretty impressive., considering Microsoft x86 emulation on the Surface pro X is abysmal.
by turtlebits 6y ago
When its running on a iPad pro chip? It's pretty impressive., considering Microsoft x86 emulation on the Surface pro X is abysmal.
- sudosysgen 6y agoIs the target to match the performance of ten year old hardware? Then sure, that's matched. But it's not impressive. AMD FX CPUs have better performance than that, by a mile.
- nicoburns 6y agoYeah, but this is their existing CPU/GPU designed to fit into the constraints of the iPad form factor. They'll likely have something much more powerful for consumer hardware.
- sudosysgen 6y agoThe iPad CPU/GPU is already thermal limited. An unlimited A12Z is right at the TDP of a laptop chip, at ~25-30W (5W per big core per anandtech, 4 cores, plus GPU and I/O, it's actually quite a generous estimate. An unlocked A12Z is likely all you can get away with in a laptop, and inferior to SOTA x86 low power CPUs.