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Hitting 5GHz on a mobile chip is impressive, but sustained thermal throttling and power draw under heavy load will be the real test for continuous performance.
by Rishabhsec 1mo ago
Hitting 5GHz on a mobile chip is impressive, but sustained thermal throttling and power draw under heavy load will be the real test for continuous performance.
- surajrmal 1mo agoContinuous load is not the use case the beefy cores on phones are designed for. They exist for bursty loads related to user interactions. Humans are fairly slow, but each touch can generate a substantial workload. Being able to handle that workload quickly and then sitting idle is what these cores do. Continuous load runs on the smallest cpus possible or ideally offloaded entirely from the CPU to others subsystems. The goal here is to minimize power usage while maintaining good user experience.