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Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se... by aquadrop on Friday October 05, 2018 @12:29PM (#18149458)
Did you run it on MacBook when it was on battery? Might not get to the max TDP in that case. So it would be like 30W vs 4W, but it's also 14nm vs 7nm.

Anyway though, it's still _very_ impressive from Apple, but much more believable. Looks like they've got very good engineers working on it. I hope they can scale it to the laptop requirements.

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Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se... by outworlder on Friday October 05, 2018 @02:45PM (#18150665)
> Did you run it on MacBook when it was on battery?

Well, if the iPhone was also on a battery, that was a fair comparison.

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Re:The iPhone XS and XS Max Review: Unveiling the Silicon Se... by JonathonW on Friday October 05, 2018 @01:37PM (#18150048)
I think that one was run on AC, but it was a while back so I can't be 100% sure. I keep meaning to re-run it to make sure, but haven't gotten to it yet.

I also have benchmarks of Haswell-era hardware which the XS is also very competitive against-- including my personal desktop, which the XS beats in single-core and matches for multi-core. But that one's probably not an entirely fair comparison, given that it's older hardware and the machine wasn't intended to be particularly high-end when I built it.

I'd like to see some more comprehensive benchmarking against Intel... I'd be inclined to do some myself, but I don't have a good benchmarking suite that isn't Geekbench. If only the SPEC benchmarks weren't so stinking expensive...

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