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I think the performance wise Intel 12th gen and Ryzen 6000 are already a little ahead. Power draw will be helped by moving to TSMCs latest node but general purp

• sidkshatriya 4y ago
  Yes, x86 will always have some power disadvantage because ARM's heritage is low power embedded devices (and RISC). x86 has other advantages like a very mature and optimized software stack with good compilers. Apple also has the advantage of cramming every thing on a single piece of silicon while AMD has gone in for the chiplet approach. The single piece of silicon reduces yields but increases performance with a lower power draw. The chiplet approach followed by AMD is more modular, less risky and cost effective. So if both AMD and Apple use the same TSMC node _and_ AMD went in for "cost is not an objective" and cram everything on a single piece of silicon _and_ add HBM (aka unified memory) it would be real interesting for the two to go "head to head". I would definitely be interested in paying good dollar for such X86 client system ! I hope someone at AMD is listening !
  • blinkingled 4y ago
    It's all about tradeoffs isn't it. Can't have diverse, extensible, open ecosystem like x86 and get every ounce of performance and power efficiency - something's gotta give. But the good news is you can get pretty close with great Engineering and competition keeps that up. Maybe one of the many x86 vendors will build such a system - Lenovo and Microsoft are working with AMD on their new custom designed Thinkpad Z series lineup and I hear good things about it.