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Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se... by JustSomeNobody on Friday October 05, 2018 @11:28AM (#18148899)
The question should be for how long? Can it outperform a Skylake for 10 seconds? 30 seconds? 1 minute? 15 minutes?

A burst for a few seconds is ok on a phone, but not on a server or workstation.

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Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se... by endorphone on Friday October 05, 2018 @12:05PM (#18149200)
But that isn't really the question rather than the answer -- in other profiles the chip could have significantly better heat dissipation solutions and would have dramatically more headroom.
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Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se... by pertymcpert on Friday October 05, 2018 @11:50AM (#18149075)
That's not really the question, because turbo boost exists on servers and workstations too. Intel chips will clock to 4.5GHz for a short while before throttling down to their base frequency once the thermal ceiling is hit.
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