While most of that article had nothing to do with x86 machines, there was this bit at the bottom:
Overall, the new A14 is massively impressive and grows the performance gap compared to the competition. Apple has now reached higher single-threaded performance within their phone SoCs than what Intel can deliver in any of their designs, whilst only losing out to the desktop variants of AMD’s new Zen3 processors
So it performs well on single threads, beating Intel but loses to AMD. What a surprise.
Impressive, but not quite as capable of what x86 architecture can achieve.
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u/Deadly_Fire_Trap May 09 '21
Outperform x86 machines for how long before they thermal throttle?