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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by nicoburns on Monday June 22, 2020 @07:04PM (#23607965)
> They are predicting 15% frequency gain (at the same complexity and power)

My intuition is that 50% might be overoptimistic. But going from iPad to Laptop thermal constraints, you'd expect a big increase in frequency just from clocking the thing higher, no?

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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by imtringued on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:56AM (#23612281)
Apple would lose their edge over Intel because most of the efficiency gains come from the lower frequency.
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Re:Apple announces it will switch to its own processors for ... by nicoburns on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @10:41AM (#23614502)
> Apple would lose their edge over Intel because most of the efficiency gains come from the lower frequency.

Presumably that would only apply when the cores are actually running at full-throttle though. For casual use there could still be considerable gains if the processors are better at power management (which they most likely are, as they've had to hyper-optimised for this for phones).

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