"Assuming core count was equal. Would a desktop CPU and an Apple SoC run at equivalent performance if it was running Ubuntu and running native compiled code?"
Yes. Of course there are going to be edge conditions where one or the other are going to shine particularly well, but overall the performance is going to be close, if not giving a nod to the Apple device.
This is the reason there have been wide expectations that Apple would move their desktop/laptop platforms to their own chips, and if rumors are true that will be next year. In a situation where their own chips had credible heat dissipation and wouldn't be subject to thermal throttling, it would be very impressive. I mean it's already spectacularly impressive, but it would be quite dominant with real cooling.
Apple needs to be careful, though, explaining their patience. There has always been the potential that Intel comes out with a game changer.
Of course in such discussions everyone is going to discount whatever benchmarks are used. Yet we've seen this in benchmark after benchmark, at generalists tasks that annihilate any trick instruction. Out of curiosity I just ran JetStream 2 -- it yields a 81.6 score on my i7 laptop, and 153 on my iPhone 11. The iPhone with incredibly poor heat dissipation.
The ARM / x86 / x86_64 / CISC / RISC things are all abstract higher level notions now and aren't the reason. Apple's team has just proven astonishingly good at designing chips. Which quite honestly I thought would turn out otherwise, and Apple would end up begging the industry for whatever the new hotness was.
Yes. Of course there are going to be edge conditions where one or the other are going to shine particularly well, but overall the performance is going to be close, if not giving a nod to the Apple device.
This is the reason there have been wide expectations that Apple would move their desktop/laptop platforms to their own chips, and if rumors are true that will be next year. In a situation where their own chips had credible heat dissipation and wouldn't be subject to thermal throttling, it would be very impressive. I mean it's already spectacularly impressive, but it would be quite dominant with real cooling.
Apple needs to be careful, though, explaining their patience. There has always been the potential that Intel comes out with a game changer.
Of course in such discussions everyone is going to discount whatever benchmarks are used. Yet we've seen this in benchmark after benchmark, at generalists tasks that annihilate any trick instruction. Out of curiosity I just ran JetStream 2 -- it yields a 81.6 score on my i7 laptop, and 153 on my iPhone 11. The iPhone with incredibly poor heat dissipation.
The ARM / x86 / x86_64 / CISC / RISC things are all abstract higher level notions now and aren't the reason. Apple's team has just proven astonishingly good at designing chips. Which quite honestly I thought would turn out otherwise, and Apple would end up begging the industry for whatever the new hotness was.