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Apple would lose their edge over Intel because most of the efficiency gains come from the lower frequency.



> Apple would lose their edge over Intel because most of the efficiency gains come from the lower frequency.

Presumably that would only apply when the cores are actually running at full-throttle though. For casual use there could still be considerable gains if the processors are better at power management (which they most likely are, as they've had to hyper-optimised for this for phones).




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