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The chip's ability to run at sustained load is a part of its design also. Precisely because modern chips has to throttle in order to meet power and thermal enve
by starfallg 6y ago
The chip's ability to run at sustained load is a part of its design also. Precisely because modern chips has to throttle in order to meet power and thermal envelopes, we should be looking at sustained performance as a more accurate measure.
In a majority of cases, burst performance only affects things like responsiveness, and those things should be measured instead for a better reflection of the benefits.
- adolph 6y agoIf you perform an integrated test, would you not perform unit tests? An unit test may show areas for easy improvement if other aspects of the total package are changed. For example, if someone thought M1 was thermally constrained, they might decide to rip mini out of the case and attach a different cooling method.
- gowld 6y agoIf you run only unit tests, you don't get useful data. > they might decide to rip mini out of the case and attach a different cooling method. 99% of customers will never do this.
- starfallg 6y agoNot saying that burst performance shouldn't be measured, but it shouldn't be the de-facto go-to performance measure like it is now with geekbench.