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by JamesDeepDown 1856 days ago
"I suspect we're about to see [Apple Silicon] move to small performance increases due to diminishing returns"

Is there any discussion of this online, I'm curious to read more.

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This has already happened.

A14 is 3.1GHz while A13 is 2.66GHz. A14 is around 20% faster than A13 overall, but it is also clocked 14% higher which gives only around 6% more IPC. Power consumption all but guarantees that they won't be doing that too often.