Re:Intel's New Chimera: Alder Lake
by formerly_proven on Sunday May 15, 2022 @11:00AM
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> The same MacBook Air can do hour long Skype video calls with ~9% charge consumption, with no discernible heat difference on the body too.
> M1 is a different beast.
The M1 has other advantages which are decidedly not rooted in the hardware: software. Apple seems to do profoundly better than Windows and Linux at applications actually using hardware accelerators. This makes a gigantic difference in performance and power efficiency.
On a Windows or Linux system it is not at all a given that even very easily hardware-accelerated tasks, like video decoding, actually use the hardware that's there.
> M1 is a different beast.
The M1 has other advantages which are decidedly not rooted in the hardware: software. Apple seems to do profoundly better than Windows and Linux at applications actually using hardware accelerators. This makes a gigantic difference in performance and power efficiency.
On a Windows or Linux system it is not at all a given that even very easily hardware-accelerated tasks, like video decoding, actually use the hardware that's there.