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Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro

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1080 points antipaul | 2 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.439s | source
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BMSmnqXAE4yfe1 ◴[12 Nov 20 07:16 UTC] No.25067305[source]▶
Looking at Geekbench charts, I see that my Samsung phone has a faster processor than my $3000 gaming rig, and it sure as hell draws less power ... so why aren't datacenters just use phones instead of Xeon and Epyc servers, what am I missing?
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1. Tiberium ◴[12 Nov 20 07:20 UTC] No.25067332[source]▶
Are you sure that you compared results from the same major Geekbench version? (v4 and v5 have quite different results).
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2. BMSmnqXAE4yfe1 ◴[12 Nov 20 07:28 UTC] No.25067387[source]▶
I'm just looking at the charts, v5