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  • Benchmarks show that Intel's Alder Lake chips aren't M1 Max killers

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    cogitodexter said:
    waveparticle said:
    cogitodexter said:
    Serious question:

    What does an Intel Core i9 do that requires it to be as power inefficient in the same processing circumstances as an AS M1 Max?

    Presumably there's a reason why it draws so much more current to achieve the same ends? Are there features in it that are not replicated in the M1 Max? 

    I'm assuming the architecture is radically different, but what stops Intel from changing to that architecture?
    Power is consumed when a transistor switch from 0 to 1 or 1 to 0. Switching is controlled by clock cycles. The more switching the more power is consumed. 
    Well, that is presumably a given. And possibly at a slightly lower level than I was alluding to. More specifically, is there some set of processing or overall design feature that Intel does wrong? Or does it do more 'stuff' that the M1 doesn't do? Is it required to support legacy ways of doing stuff that the M1 is free from? 
    Simply put, it's an inefficient x86 design with larger transistors. It requires more and bigger transistors to perform the same number of tasks which uses more electricity and consumes more power. The architecture is completely different.
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  • Benchmarks show that Intel's Alder Lake chips aren't M1 Max killers

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    bobolicious said:
    Well if one needs GPU performance - I am running into software for example that simply will not run (bricked) without a beefy GPU...

    from the Macworld article:

      59,774   Apple M1 Max 32 core GPU
    143,594  nVidia 3080 Ti

    240% faster, presumably not 'within margin of error'

    Even more pronounced seem the desktop options (AMD) with the relatively inexpensive nVidia 3060 outperforming passmark scores for many higher priced cards as well as having 12GB VRAM  www.bestbuy.com/site/evga-nvidia-geforce-rtx-3060-xc-gaming-12gb-gddr6-pci-express-4-0-graphics-card/6454329.p?skuId=6454329

    I understood Apple is working on a 'boost' option which may help, and will presumably also ramp up the power and fan requirements...?
    Except that's not the Alder Gate chip. That's the NVIDIA GPU. What's the GPU performance of the Intel graphics on the Alder Gate chip? Does that account for Metal performance boosts?
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  • Doctor ignores default iOS parental controls, child racks up $1,800 in in-app purchases

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    This is proof that you can be a doctor and still and idiot. He obviously doesn’t understand how life works. Apple didn’t prompt his kid to buy anything. Apple didn’t make the game or force his kid to buy something or leave his kid unsupervised. He could have configured parental controls. He didn’t. This is user error akin to leaving the keys in the family car and letting your kid play in it unsupervised.
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  • iOS 15 Live Text feature can copy and paste text from any image

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    KBuffett said:
    It would be great if one could search text from photos in one’s library.
    I believe they had demonstrated that one can as text in images is indexed by spotlight.
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  • ACLU warns that Apple COVID-19 contact tracing encroaches on civil liberties

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    You know what else encroaches on civil liberties? Death. Death encroaches on your civil liberties.
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