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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by mozumder on Monday April 02, 2018 @06:59PM (#16740236)
Artificial benchmarks do a great job of capturing performance, since they're more controlled and eliminate unnecessary variables.

Once you understand this, then you can understand how CPU designers work to predict future performance. CPU designers use artificial testbenches.

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Re:Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Repla... by michaelmrose on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:26PM (#16741414)
You making up numbers doesn't appear to be a useful endeavor.
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