I heard 10 years ago, or whatever, that the ipad 2 had the most power efficient CPU available, period. This was told at a keynote by an HPC scientist who cannot be said to be a «apple journalist». Apple have been doing well for a very long time and I’ve expected this moment since that keynote, basically.
OK, I misspoke. I heard the sentiment from the Apple-focused voices in my information bubble, doesn't mean that nobody else said it. It's just that "nobody believed those Geekbench benchmarks" is not completely true.
Re:Why is Apple's M1 chip so fast?
by fiddlerwoaroof on Monday November 30, 2020 @03:42PM
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Yeah, Apple’s CPUs have been doing really well for a while now: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~bornholt/post/z3-iphone.html
Except for a lot of the Apple-centric journalists and podcasters, who have been imagining for years how fast a desktop built on these already-very-fast-when-passively-cooled chips could be.
Not that that matters very much when experienced and real-world workload performance suffers, but as far as I can tell, the M1 is no slouch in that respect either.