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by talldayo 658 days ago
Why not? Apple's SOCs are in the 200-300w range that desktop systems occupy, it's only fair to compare it with it's contemporaries. Nvidia is said to be developing desktop SOCs too so we'll soon have systems for comparison, but I don't see how laptop dGPUs are an unfair comparison against desktop SOCs in any case. It's basically the same hardware with similar thermal constraints.

Plus; say we did include all of the dGPUs that Apple officially supports. Not even the W6800X gets more performance-per-watt than an Nvidia laptop chip. It only highlights the fact that Apple goes out of their way to prevent Nvidia from providing GPU support on Mac.