[willtemperley]

You’re contradicting yourself. The whole reason x86 burns more power is that the CISC front end can’t be avoided.

[userbinator]

That was disproved 11 years ago:

https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/188396-the-final-isa-sho...

The CISC decoder is like a "decompressor" that saves memory bandwidth and cache usage.

[wqaatwt]

Are there any mid-high end RISC-V chips that have comparable performance per watt to x86?