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by pickledish 685 days ago
You should try not to talk so confidently about things you don't know about -- this statement

> if AMD used the same 33w, nobody would buy their chips because performance would be so incredibly bad

Is completely incorrect, as another commenter (and I think the notebookcheck article?) point out -- 30w is about the sweet spot for these processors, and the reason that 110w laptop seems so inefficient is because it's giving the APU 80w of TDP, which is a bit silly since it only performs marginally better than if you gave it e.g. 30 watts. It's not a good idea to take that example as a benchmark for the APU's efficiency, it varies depending on how much TDP you give the processor, and 80w is not a good TDP for these

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Halo products with high scores sell chips. This isn’t a new idea.

So you lower the wattage down. Now you’re at M1 Pro levels of performance with 17% more cores and nearly double the die area and barely competing with a chip 3 years older while on a newer, more expensive node too.

That’s not selling me on your product (and that’s without mentioning the worst core latency I’ve seen in years when going between P and C cores).