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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by GeekyBear on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:26PM (#23606063)
I'd say that you should take a look at a comparison of the power efficiency of Apple's "little" core in the A13 to a stock ARM little core.

>In the face-off against a Cortex-A55 implementation such as on the Snapdragon 855, the new Thunder cores represent a 2.5-3x performance lead while at the same time using less than half the energy.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...

Apple has been hitting it out of the park lately.

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by monocasa on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:35PM (#23606220)
Yeah, the other ARMs are anemic, but the AMD cores are knocking it out of the park recently.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by thetinguy on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:17AM (#23611193)
They’re not really though. Still slower IPC.
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