> Apple CPU Gains Grind To A Halt Apple is playing a different game than it's competitors. They aren't looking to make performance gains no matter what happen

> Apple CPU Gains Grind To A Halt Apple is playing a different game than it's competitors. They aren't looking to make performance gains no matter what happens to power draw and waste heat by endlessly cranking up the clocks. The Anandtech deep dive into the cores used in the A15 and M2 show that Apple didn't just increase performance by about 18%, they cut power while increasing performance. >Apple A15 performance cores are extremely impressive here – usually increases in performance always come with some sort of deficit in efficiency, or at least flat efficiency. Apple here instead has managed to reduce power whilst increasing performance, meaning energy efficiency is improved by 17% on the peak performance states versus the A14. In our initial coverage of Apple’s announcement, we theorised that the company might possibly invested into energy efficiency rather than performance increases this year, and I’m glad to see that seemingly this is exactly what has happened, explaining some of the more conservative (at least for Apple) performance improvements. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16983/the-apple-a15-soc-performance-review-faster-more-efficient/2 https://www.anandtech.com/show/16983/the-apple-a15-soc-perfo... Apple isn't winning at the game of performance increases no matter what happens to heat and power draw, because that isn't the metric they care about. They care about performance per watt. That's how dropping the M2 into the same entry level Macbook Pro they sold last year doesn't just bump up performance, it also gains you a couple more hours of battery life. >MacBook Pro 2022 battery life tested — this is the longest-lasting laptop ever https://www.tomsguide.com/opinion/macbook-pro-2022-battery-life-tested-this-is-the-longest-lasting-laptop-ever https://www.tomsguide.com/opinion/macbook-pro-2022-battery-l...