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by Panzer04 1000 days ago
It's all tradeoffs. Desktop users are happy for 20% more performance at 2x power draw - and they get the fastest processors in existence (at single thread) as a result.

Data centres want whatever gets them the most compute per dollar spent - if a GPU costs 20k you bet they want it running at max power, but if it's a 1k CPU then suddenly efficiency is more important.

It's all tradeoffs to get what you want.