Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score

Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by p1necone on Thursday October 21, 2021 @01:18AM (#28940599)

To be fair idle power is really important for a lot of use cases.

In a compute focused cloud environment you might be able to have most of your hardware pegged by compute most of the time, but outside of that CPUs spend most of their time either very far under 100% capacity, or totally idle.

In order to actually calculate real efficiency gains you'd probably have to measure power usage under various scenarios though, not just whatever weird math they did here.

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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by throwawaylinux on Thursday October 21, 2021 @04:11AM (#28941722)

That's not really being fair, because the metric is presented to look like traditional perf/watt. And idle is not so important in supercomputers and cloud compute nodes which get optimized to keep them busy at all costs. But even in cases where it is important, averaging between the two might be reasonable but multiplying the loaded efficiency with the idle efficiency increase is ludicrous. A meaningless unit.

I can't see any possible charitable explanation for this stupidity. MBAs and marketing department run amok.

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Re:Apple M1 Max Geekbench Score by p1necone on Thursday October 21, 2021 @05:35PM (#28951106)

Yep 100% agree with you - see my last sentence. Just trying to clarify that the issue here isn't that idle power consumption isn't important, it's the nonsense math.

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