[eklitzke]

Apple lets their CPUs and GPUs run at a higher max frequency/power draw, but you're absolutely right that in clock-to-clock performance they're only marginally better in both CPU and GPU performance.

[aurareturn]

If you clock CPUs low enough, many CPUs in the past could match Apple in clock-to-clock performance. This is because clock speed does not scale with performance.

[ksec]

>This is because clock speed does not scale with performance.

You may want to have a word with AMD and Intel about that.

>many CPUs in the past could match Apple in clock-to-clock performance.

Are we talking about synthetic benchmarks or real world work loads.

[aurareturn]

Clock speed does not scale linearly with performance.

Synthetic. Something like Geekbench.