PC Life After Apple Silicon

Re:PC Life After Apple Silicon by anoncow on Monday November 23, 2020 @07:15AM (#25185910)

If the M1 can do at 10W what others can do at 45 to 100W, then yes, ARM seems to be the only way.

Sadly there is no news of competition. Nothing from Intel/AMD or even Qualcomm. Microsoft's ARM attempts to take on Chromebook seem so feeble now.

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Re:PC Life After Apple Silicon by izacus on Monday November 23, 2020 @07:26AM (#25186005)

M1 certanly doesn't draw 10W (the tests has shown that it'll pull way more than that on some devices) - and if you see per core power draw the Zen3 and M1 architectures are within 15-20% which can be attributed to the 7nm vs. 5nm manufacturing process.

Remember that AMD is fabricating their CPUs at the same fab than Apple does - they're not crippled by obsolete manufacturing process like Intel.

This is why these articles are such puff pieces - they're focusing on Intel, which has fallen behind by quite a lot and completely ignoring the major changes that also happened on x86-64 front.

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Re:PC Life After Apple Silicon by my123 on Monday November 23, 2020 @07:39AM (#25186114)

Apple M1 eats way less than that per-core, topping out at 6.6W on libquantum: https://twitter.com/andreif7/status/1328775201677565952?s=20

In Cinebench ST, it's 3.4W per core only...

With CPU _and_ GPU fully saturated: https://twitter.com/andreif7/status/1328820823877095425?s=20 32.6W

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Re:PC Life After Apple Silicon by izacus on Monday November 23, 2020 @03:58PM (#25191792)

Last I checked the Zen3 Ryzens drew around 7-8W per core as well, which isn't a massive power draw difference.

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