Thunder is an ARM "little" core implementation. It's not meant to compete with a full performance core from anyone. It competes against other "little"cores.

Thunder is an ARM "little" core implementation. It's not meant to compete with a full performance core from anyone. It competes against other "little"cores. I'm sure when Intel starts shipping their chips that mix Core and Atom, someone will start comparison testing. As far as performance per watt and less waste heat, you don't even have to wait to see what their 5nm desktop/laptop chips look like, their iPhone chips with a tiny power budget and passive cooling are already competitive with Intel and AMD. >Last year I’ve noted that the A12 was margins off the best desktop CPU cores. This year, the A13 has essentially matched best that AMD and Intel have to offer – in SPECint2006 at least. In SPECfp2006 the A13 is still roughly 15% behind. https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro-and-max-review/4 https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...