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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 | 1 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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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akuma73 ◴[12 Nov 20 07:19 UTC] No.25067327[source]▶
Nuvia is a startup that is planning to do just that https://nuviainc.com/blog

You need to be competitive on single thread performance to have a chance at datacenter. Amdahl's law is still very relevant. Up until very very recently, the CPUs were not up to par.

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1. BMSmnqXAE4yfe1 ◴[12 Nov 20 07:35 UTC] No.25067425[source]▶
Nice charts ... so performance per watt is indeed 10x better for S865 vs the Ryzen.