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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: 0.407s | 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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dt3ft ◴[12 Nov 20 07:20 UTC] No.25067335[source]▶
Probably due to overheating. Your phone can do bursts of processing every now and then, but if you let it execute heavy compute operations, the phone would probably overheat and shut itself off.
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1. regularfry ◴[12 Nov 20 07:26 UTC] No.25067366[source]▶
So would a Xeon if you pulled the heatsink off.
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2. BMSmnqXAE4yfe1 ◴[12 Nov 20 07:30 UTC] No.25067400[source]▶
So pull the insides of the phone out, attach a heatsink ... heatsinks cost less than LCD screens I reckon.