| "CPUs are a chump's game" - what? High performance CPUs which nevertheless use very little power are extremely difficult to design. "AMD's Ryzen 7 4800u hit 4ghz over 8 cores" - It doesn't. AMD specifies it as having 1.8 GHz base clock, 4.2 GHz max boost clock. AMD's cores use ~15W each at max frequency. Since the 4800U's configurable TDP range is 10W to 25W for the whole chip, there is no way that all 8 cores run at 4.2 GHz simultaneously for any substantial period of time. In fact, running even one core in its max performance state probably isn't sustainable in a lot of systems which opt to use the 4800U's default 15W TDP configuration. On the other side of things, Apple M1 performance cores use ~6W each at max frequency. It is actually possible for all four to run at full performance indefinitely with the whole chip using about 25W, provided there is little GPU load. "Remember our friend the 4800u? It's integrated GPU is able to beat the M1's GPU in raw benchmarks, and it came out 18 months before it." - Say what? The only direct comparison I've been able to find is 4700U vs M1, in Anandtech's M1 article, and it shows the M1 GPU as 2.6x faster in GFXBench 5.0 Aztec Ruins 1080p offscreen and 2.5x faster in 1440p high. Granted, the 4700U GPU is a bit slower than the 4800U GPU, but not by a factor of 2 or more. This isn't an unexpected result given that M1's GPU offers ~2.6 single precision TFLOPs while the 4800's is ~1.8 TFLOPs. Literally everything you wrote about M1 being bad is wrongheaded in the extreme, LOL. |