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Well yeah... I was saying that they improved power consumption massively compared to Apple since 2020. Which is true. 10th gen was horrible and now they have a

• TylerE 2y ago
  According to Wikipedia the lastest meteor lakes have a peak draw of 57w. My entire Mac Studio draws 38w.
  • zamadatix 2y ago
    Apple gives 115 W as the peak draw of the lowest power Mac Studio model (10 core M1 Max) https://support.apple.com/en-us/10202 https://support.apple.com/en-us/10202) and 295 W for the highest power (M2 Ultra 24 Core). I believe 38 W is what you see under your personal "full utilization workload" but it's just that's not comparable to "peak workload" numbers. To be honest the peak numbers are relatively useless anyways, you'll never hit them unless you go do something akin to running purpose written CPU and a GPU benchmark at the same time, specifically designed to utilize all of the hardware capabilities at once rather than do something useful with them. The idle and typical wattage numbers are much more useful and much lower. Also keep in mind some CPU models (even of the same family) are pushed to e.g. double the wattage for a 25% multicore gain or the like. It doesn't mean the CPU family is complete shit for power efficiency it just means there was a market for a SKU which wasn't very concerned with power consumption. All that said the M* line is definitely still better efficiency/Watt but I concur with qwytw the difference between Intel and Apple now vs 4 years ago is massively improved and the gap isn't as anywhere near as big as you've been listing.
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