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Having a more-powerful-than-necessary CPU has many benefits, here are some: - Less heat produced > allows for smaller heatsinks and, as a result, smaller devic
by manmal 6y ago
Having a more-powerful-than-necessary CPU has many benefits, here are some:
- Less heat produced > allows for smaller heatsinks and, as a result, smaller devices or bigger components
- Performance bottlenecks become less likely
- Features like 120hz display refresh rate become possible without the user noticing degradation
- Faster OS boot and app starts
- Ability to do more work locally vs using a server (see the many ML features)
- Tech debt in system code is less of an issue - code can be shipped early and optimized later
- bhj 6y agoBattery life. The faster a task is completed (at a given power cost) the sooner the CPU can go back to standby.
- baybal2 6y agoNot so fast, especially these days. CPU power consumption is highly non-linear. You may well be benefitting from running a task longer, at a slower speed, and using less transistors.
- saagarjha 6y agoIn general time-to-sleep is still the defining factor in keeping battery life long. Sure, there are low-power cores, but I believe most UI code will not run at it since it's given high priority by the system.
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoNot to mention it extends the life of the device. If a device is only just good enough for now, what will it be like in 4 years time. I currently use a 6 year old ipad air 2 and it feels very snappy and does everything I use it for well. Apple also tends to stop updates when the hardware is no longer capable of running the next OS smoothly.