02-23-2019, 03:12 AM
Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
We are already there. The third generation iPad Pro with the A12X has higher Geekbench 4 single-core and two times higher multi-core scores than the Intel mobile phone based retina MacBook...
...For a few seconds. But even the large profile of the iPad Pro can't dissipate heat long enough to keep it up.
ARM is no good for sustained speed right now, and sucks at multithreading. Not without enough cooling that it ends up sucking more power than Intel.
Maybe in 2 years it'll be different, but any "Mac" based on today's ARM tech is going to be little more than an iPad with a keyboard.
Old, but good reading:
https://www.engadget.com/2015/11/14/ipad-pro-a9x-chip/