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Heat.

• Decade 5y ago
  To expand on that: The design challenge of high-performance CPUs today is heat. Too much heat induces throttling. Putting low-priority stuff onto efficiency cores reserves the power budget of the SoC for high-priority tasks. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/apples-m1-is-a-fast-cpu-but-m1-macs-feel-even-faster-due-to-qos/?comments=1&post=39917947#comment-39917947 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/apples-m1-is-a-fast-...