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There have always been higher performing x64 chips than the M series but they use several times more power to get that. Apple seems to be reliably annihilating
by api 2y ago
There have always been higher performing x64 chips than the M series but they use several times more power to get that.
Apple seems to be reliably annihilating everyone on performance per watt at the high end of the performance curve. It makes sense since the M series are mobile CPUs on ‘roids.
- MBCook 2y agoIrony being that’s the same thing Intel learned from the P4. They gave it up for Core, grown from their low power chips, which took them far further with far less power than the P4 would have used.
- api 2y agoSince power is the limiting factor due to heat, optimize for power first then scale up.