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this is not the case at all, and i'm not sure why exactly its being parroted by people on this forum. these scores are from a synthetic benchmark which test burst speed and they are quite literally in no way representative of real world performance comparing the intel cpus and the A series chips.
there are a plethora of examples comparing same intel cpus in different laptops from different manufactureres where the "best" performing computer doesn't necessarily have the highest geekbench score.
this isn't to say the A series chips aren't powerful, of course they are, but it is not "pretty much" the case that the phone, which runs a stripped down version of mac os as a mobile OS, running one app at a time is more powerful than a laptop which runs a full desktop OS capable of better multitasking and various application support
there are a plethora of examples comparing same intel cpus in different laptops from different manufactureres where the "best" performing computer doesn't necessarily have the highest geekbench score.
this isn't to say the A series chips aren't powerful, of course they are, but it is not "pretty much" the case that the phone, which runs a stripped down version of mac os as a mobile OS, running one app at a time is more powerful than a laptop which runs a full desktop OS capable of better multitasking and various application support
That is measuring one aspect of performance. But unless you run synthetic benchmarks all day it does not matter a lot, expecially when crossing OSes and applications.
It's already amazing what kind of performance we can get from a tiny chip in a small handheld phone.
So imagine if Apple designed a new ARM chip specifically for a laptop... a device with a large body and a huge battery!
That's when it will get really exciting.
So imagine if Apple designed a new ARM chip specifically for a laptop... a device with a large body and a huge battery!
That's when it will get really exciting.