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Comparing currently available CPUs on the market is pretty fair.

• kaba0 4y ago
  Sure, but would you go as far to claim that X phone is so much better in battery, Y has no chance of catching up, when X just put a twice as big battery in their phone? Like we just don’t know how much node size alone matters in the picture (or in the analogy, whether the improvement is only due to the bigger capacity battery vs better energy management at other places)
  • mromanuk 4y ago
    > Like we just don’t know how much node size alone matters in the picture (or in the analogy, whether the improvement is only due to the bigger capacity battery vs better energy management at other places) Yes, that's what interesting about this, how did they achieved the performance gap
• yxhuvud 4y ago
  That is definitely true, but you can't reach any conclusion on the cost of the x86 baggage by comparing different process nodes. It has way too much influence on the end result to be ignored. In a few months we will have both AMD and Apple on the same size, so we will finally get some idea of how the baggage compare then. It won't be a long situation, Apple will relatively soon after release a new on a smaller size again.
  • hajile 4y ago
    A13 and Zen 2 were both made in TSMC N7 fabs, but the performance per watt differences were still enormous.
  • philistine 4y ago
    You have had the same fab processes for years on phone chips and Apple was winning every year. The fact the chip is in the chassis of a computer does not suddenly change the game in favour of AMD.