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Apple's A20 Pro shatters Geekbench 7 single-core record — 2nm chip beats desktop Intel Core i9 and AMD Ryzen 9 by up to 32%
(www.tomshardware.com)
A20 Pro vs Intel Ultra 7 Series 3
Not that crazy to beat a desktop CPU in specific category like this. This article went off the deep end when they made the comparison to the Huawei CPU. If you actually put one of these in a phone and spent any amount of time getting the kind of performance they're claiming it would almost immediately thermal throttle or cook itself. These comparisons are pointless.
Exactly what I wanted to say. On paper my pixel 1 was significantly faster then my pc at the time, an ancient core2quad q8400. In a lot of ways the phone did feel faster, then I tried to decompress a large 7z file on both of them and,despite using a mechanical hard drive, my pc took just over half as long.
Now overall, there were a lot of things that chip could manage better than my desktop but the point is that using a single benchmark or benchmark suite that leans into the strengths of the hardware is pointless.
These "benchmarks" are great for marketing, so not pointless. Just pointless for users.
So it's just pointless
Toms Hardware is a corporate propaganda op anyway.
Yep, synthetic benchmarks aren't worth much outside of theoretical performance. Test a complete system as you can actually buy it and with an actual real-life workload - i'm sure the performance will still be good, but nowhere this outstanding.
Edit: that doesn't even take into account the amount of times companies have been caught cheating on those tests, which is only possible because they are not a real life scenario
having a high peak performance means you can underclock it, giving it less energy to get the same performance as before with less heat, meaning at the thermal throttle point it is that much faster than before