[virtuallynathan]

> The i7-7700K is a desktop CPU drawing at least 45 watts of power and clocked at 4.5 GHz when running a single-threaded workload; in contrast, the iPhone was unplugged, probably doesn’t draw 10% of that power, and runs (we believe) somewhere in the 2 GHz range

A12 runs at 2.5Ghz, and draws ~3.64W of power. I also think the actual power draw of the i7-7700K may be north of 45W, Anandtech claims 90W (with a TDP of 91W).

I bet if you could pop a heatsink on the A12(X) and overclock it/up the TDP, it would come very close or beat intel at most single-threaded applications.

Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-re...

[sidereal]

I cleaned up that text a little bit -- the 7700K doesn't draw the full 91W TDP when only a single core is loaded, as in this experiment.