[mtreis86]

Performance per watt continues to increase tho

[p1necone]

I wonder how widespread the adoption of steam deck + clones has been amongst benchmark participants (very very good perf per watt, relatively middling absolute performance), that could explain a lot. Not sure where they would end up on the desktop vs laptop categorization.

[Synaesthesia]

For some time there was stagnation on the performance per watt metric. But ever since Apple dropped the M1 there has been a huge change.

[aftbit]

For a little while before that, CPU performance was stagnant with Intel on top until AMD released Ryzen and Zen, and Intel got stuck on 14nm for half a decade. Suddenly AMD is posting substantial performance improvements every cycle and Intel is cranking up TDP to compete. Now we have competitive x86 processors from two different sources AND competitive ARM processors from two others.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

Apple has unlimited money cheat codes. Buy newest/best node, move memory on package, ignore compatibility/longevity.