Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar) on June 1, 2022 9:50 pm wrote:

> Apple's M1 cores have lower power consumption because they are designed with power consumption having
> primacy over performance because phones are Apple's most profitable product. Thus they target frequencies
> 40% lower than Intel and AMD cores that are designed for PCs since there is effectively no x86 mobile
> device market. While laptops are growing in importance in the PC market they still take a back seat
> to CPUs operating in desktops and servers, so laptops get underclocked/undervolted/undercored versions
> of Intel and AMD cores optimized for devices running on wall power.

I would agree with everything you said, but there is still the fact that M1 — while prioritising power consumption — is essentially reaching identical performance as the x86 chips. Sure, binned desktop Alder Lake is marginally faster (~20% , but it also pays a significant ~5x penalty in power consumption to get at most ~20% higher ST performance. So I am not sure about the accuracy of the statement that Apple prioritises power over performance — kind of seems to me that Apple gets both.