sigh Look: Apple fabs good cores. As a matter of fact, they're pretty much the only company even attempting to make ARM cores. They have lots of money, and goo

sigh Look: Apple fabs good cores. As a matter of fact, they're pretty much the only company even attempting to make ARM cores. They have lots of money, and good designs on dense silicon usually equals fast chips. This is a brutally facetious comparison though. Nevermind the obvious ARM/x86 disparity, or even the node difference in fabrication; you're not even comparing mobile cores to each other. What kind of serious comparison takes desktop wattages and compares them to a smartphone SOC? If you take the chip the parent mentioned (7640U) instead of picking a random desktop option, the gap closes considerably. 7640U scores 2559 in single-core, which scales very well for multicore workloads. Given that it's a 6-core chip with a 30w max TDP, a single core probably couldn't draw more than 5w either.