Dummond D. Slow (mental.delete@this.protozoa.us) on November 16, 2020 6:22 pm wrote:

> Uh? Whether the MT score is good or bad, that absolutely depyends on the power consumed.
> If it does better then say the octocore Ryzen 4800U (probably most efficient laptop chip for this task on
> x86 side, ATM) in the particular power envelope, be it 10W or 15W or whatever, that is a good result.
> If it does worse but at proportionally lower power, also good result.
>
> If the AMD beats M1 at the same or even better power = bad result for Apple.
> And that could all happen with the exact same 7500 points score the M1 achieves. What
> that number means absolutely depends on the power consumed... Not sure what is not
> to understand, performance-per-watt is ultimately the name of the game in these multithreaded
> tasks. It's like with GPUs, ultimately your performance is TDP-limited.

Not against 4800U but against previous Apple laptops power efficiency is about 10 times better at high loads while simultaneously offering better performance:

yeah-apples-m1-macbook-pro-is-powerful-but-its-the-battery-life-that-will-blow-you-away/

Wonder if it's good enough or should Apple have stayed with x86.....