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Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max by DrBenCarson on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:09AM (#30096459)
That’s just not true. The RISC instruction set has a growing advantage in performance per watt. There’s a reason no one is producing low-power x86 chips.
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Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max by Macha on Thursday January 27, 2022 @08:14AM (#30100128)
Surely it's a shrinking advantage? x86 CPUs have been microcode based for a long time, and the hardware to convert x86 instructions to micro ops is a relatively fixed cost that diminishes over time with process shrinks?
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