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Re:Things I learnt making a fast website by dom0 on Saturday December 24, 2016 @05:16AM (#13249250)
> the Pixel comes out as having 89% of the performance of the fastest desktop system.

Do you really think we're expending 20-30 times the power for a 12 % compute speed-up?

Just to clarify, the two numbers you quote are different benchmarks. You can't compare them, lest say "oh, they're only different by 10 percent".

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Re:Things I learnt making a fast website by computator on Sunday December 25, 2016 @02:55PM (#13255212)
I agree that the 20-30x greater power consumption is hard to reconcile with the benchmarks I quoted. So, yes, something doesn't make sense; the benchmark is not taking into account something or I don't know what.

> the two numbers you quote are different benchmarks

But I don't agree with explanation. Both benchmarks are "PassMarks" (a proprietary measure devised by that company). I don't see them saying that their PassMarks for desktops are different than their PassMarks for smartphones.

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