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by cruano 1749 days ago
> the Ryzen 9 processor really flexed some impressive muscles ... this is at a considerable power cost as the Apple chip uses 15 W and the AMD part relies on up to 65 W

This seems kind of irrelevant given both are desktop machines, although those would kill it in a server farm

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I don't think it's completely irrelevant because less power usage means less heat output and a reduction in annoying fan noise.