[BuckRogers]

It's worth keeping in mind that Intel tied architecture to process node, and have been stuck on 14nm for many years. Very little changes have been made to Skylake (2015) by Intel even with the latest 9th gen release. They're starting to look long in the tooth on many fronts, AMD's SMT is more efficient, and AMD has a much better boost algorithm as well (Precision Boost 2), among other aspects.

Had their roadmap not tied node to arch, this comparison wouldn't look so damning. Also, many engineers left Intel for Apple because they're talented and tired of releasing Skylake every year. Once Intel fully decouples node and arch, we should see non-mobile CPUs running away from mobile chips like the A12.

This benchmark is essentially Intel's 2015 design on 14nm vs Apple's 2018 design on 7nm.

[mcphage]

> This benchmark is essentially Intel's 2015 design on 14nm vs Apple's 2018 design on 7nm.

Except it's what Intel is selling in 2018.

[BuckRogers]

I'm not trying to offend anyone who feels compelled to be naturally defensive or take some sort of "side" here.

Nor am I defending Intel (I recently chose and now use a Ryzen 2700X), I'm just contributing additional facts and context to the conversation for anyone who wasn't aware of it since I read all the comments here and no one mentioned it.