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[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (18 children)

Geekbech is as useful as a metric as an umbrella on a fish. Also the M4 max will not consume less energy than the competition. That is a misconception arising from the lower skus in mobile devices. The laws of physics apply to everyone, at the same reticle size the energy consumption in nT worlkloads is equivalent. The great advantage of Apple is that they are usually a node ahead and the eschewing of legacy compatibility saves space and thus energy in the design that can be leveraged to reduce power consumption on idle or 1T. Case in point, Intel's latest mobile CPUs.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Exactly, the apple chips excel at low power tasks and will consume basically nothing doing them. It's also good for small bursty tasks, but for long lived intensive tasks it behaves basically the same as an equivalent x86 chip. People don't seem to know that these chips can easily consume 80-90W of power when going full tilt.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The new Intel Arrow Lake is supposed to max out at 150W, but it doesn't. And that's still almost 40% better than previous gen Intel!
So hovering around 80-90W max is pretty modest by today's standards.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That's impressive, or should I say scary? 150w is a lot of heat to dissipate... I hope those aren't laptop chips...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

The 14900k is an absolute oven

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

No but the M4 Max is claimed to be as fast, and Intel improved their chip, so it's down from 250W for previous gen! And the M4 Max is faster.

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