Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se...
by oliveshell on Friday October 05, 2018 @10:54AM
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I agree— though it’s perhaps worth mentioning that a fan on the phones was used for the SPEC2006 benchmarks:
> The performance measurement was run in a synthetic environment (read: bench fan cooling the phones) where we assured thermals wouldn’t be an issue for the 1-2 hours it takes to complete a full suite run.
Still darn impressive, as in the real world you won’t be doing anything with your phone that maxes out the SoC for 2 hours straight.
Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se...
by hesdeadjim on Friday October 05, 2018 @11:29AM
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The performance comparisons are not remotely apples to apples to begin with. All that's been established is that an Ax chip is entering the realm of desktop performance. Under all the workloads you'd benchmark a regular desktop chip on (FPU, AVX, etc etc) the Ax chips are still going to be far behind at the TDP and frequency they run at.
If you could pump up the TDP and frequency of the Ax chips to actual desktop class and throw a heatsink on so you don't get thermally throttled, I am sure Apple's chips would be competitive.
It's an inevitability that we'll see a desktop-class Ax powered Macbook at some point soon-ish. When that happens we can start making legitimate comparisons.
The fact that someone can come up with a chip of similar performance to Intel’s isn’t that amazing. The fact that they can do so without needing a fan is.