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Ice Lake shipped in 2019. The current generation is Alder Lake, which is slightly ahead of the M1 in single-threaded performance according to most benchmarks.
by adfgadfgaery 5y ago
Ice Lake shipped in 2019. The current generation is Alder Lake, which is slightly ahead of the M1 in single-threaded performance according to most benchmarks.
- sharikous 5y agoAnd massively behind in terms of power consuption
- mhh__ 5y agoIts behind M1 but it's worth pointing out that Alder Lake is not a power-hog on "normal" workloads i.e. gaming when compared to it's other X86 competitors. It only starts cooking itself on extremely heavy workloads.
- adfgadfgaery 5y agoYes, certainly. I don't think that's relevant in this case, though. Why would anyone care if their workstation CPU draws 60W or 200W? It's easy to cool in either case and the power consumption is trivial. M1 is clearly the best design on the market for mobile devices and is merely very good for desktops. Let's keep the enthusiasm realistic.
- abletonlive 5y agoYou say it's easy to cool but that's actually not the case, for anybody that cares about noise. Any music studio is going to happily take the 60W over 200W because they record and monitor music and need the quietest machine possible in the room. Unsurprisingly, it's called Mac Studio, as in music studio, or art studio, or what have you studio, where these things matter. This is a machine aimed at content creators.
- manquer 5y agoHigher power means more cooling, which usually means more noise. A lot of people find value in quieter machines.
- secondcoming 5y ago>Why would anyone care if their workstation CPU draws 60W or 200W? I care. I work from home and my main power sink is my desktop. Considering the soaring energy prices these days I really do care about what my usage is.
- teilo 5y agoMy bad. I meant Alder Lake.