Intel Alder Lake Mobility CPU Faster Than Apple M1 Max

Re:Intel Alder Lake Mobility CPU Faster Than Apple M1 Max by avianes on Thursday October 28, 2021 @11:35AM (#29027316)

I struggled to understand that you compute score/TDP

> Waiting for apple fanboys telling me something like "but TDP is not a good measure"...

Not an Apple fan, but TDP is not even a measurement, it's a specification of the heat dissipation required for that CPU. So in theory it corresponds to the maximum power dissipated by the CPU under load, but in practice two machines with the same TDP may be equipped with differently dimensioned heatsinks which will influence your metric. You should consider using a real average power consumption measurement to establish your metric.

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Re:Intel Alder Lake Mobility CPU Faster Than Apple M1 Max by ac29 on Thursday October 28, 2021 @12:36PM (#29027997)

> So in theory it corresponds to the maximum power dissipated by the CPU under load

I think this isn't quite right - TDP is the amount of heat the system needs to be able to dissipate in order to prevent thermal throttling at a given base speed. If the system can dissipate more (and provide more power), chips can clock higher to a turbo or boost speed.

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Re:Intel Alder Lake Mobility CPU Faster Than Apple M1 Max by avianes on Thursday October 28, 2021 @02:47PM (#29029870)

yes, that's why I put "in theory". But you're right, I should have written something like "with a simplistic perspective" instead.

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