On: Apple's M4 Max chip is the fastest single-core performer in consumer computing

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There have always been higher performing x64 chips than the M series but they use several times more power to get that.

Apple seems to be reliably annihilating everyone on performance per watt at the high end of the performance curve. It makes sense since the M series are mobile CPUs on ‘roids.

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Irony being that’s the same thing Intel learned from the P4.

They gave it up for Core, grown from their low power chips, which took them far further with far less power than the P4 would have used.

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Since power is the limiting factor due to heat, optimize for power first then scale up.