What you agree to is irrelevant.
I was agreeing with a previous poster. It goes without saying that you don't have to accept any statement I make.
However, if you want to talk about relevant, then whatever I think and whatever you think is irrelevant. This whole discussion is irrelevant. It won't change anything, so why do it?
Well, I do it to share information and learn things, but there's only a certain amount of disagreeableness that a discussion can tolerate, and I feel like this is getting overheated and not very productive.
If you want to go down the path of explaining why these are not valid cross platform benchmarks, then you are welcome to attempt to make that case.
Well, I'm not intimately familiar with GeekBench. I did try to find more information about it, before posting that. What I found is a statement that:
Geekbench 5 measures your processor's single-core and multi-core power, for everything from checking your email to taking a picture to playing music, or all of it at once. Geekbench 5's CPU benchmark measures performance in new application areas including Augmented Reality and Machine Learning
So, I'm left to wonder how it does that, and how exposed it is to the underlying API layers and multitasking performance of the platform. So, I simply said "it's questionable", because it seems to me those are legitimate and unanswered questions.
Moreover, unless you can provide something which directly contradicts this comparison, you have no basis for your disagreement other than for the sake of being argumentative.
This gets to what I was saying about "disagreeableness". If we're on a journey together, towards enlightenment, then I'd expect you to say something like: "gee, why do you think it's questionable?". However, that statement comes across as very defensive, which tells me you're more invested in winning an argument than trying to learn and share knowledge. That might be fine for you, but not me.
You make blanket statements which you are apparently not able to support.
I think the quotes speak for themselves. They said the increase in power was greater than the increase in performance vs the A12, which says that A13 probably can't scale much past 2.6 GHz or so.
My original claim is made evident by such examples of 680x0 vs 80x86 comparisons over multiple generations. The same goes with PowerPC, etc. Intel has never had the superior architecture or chip design. Rather, Intel has always had the advantage on chip manufacturing process.
That's ancient history, and has no real bearing on the Intel of today.
Yes, Kudos to Intel to drag x86 so far forward. Yet, at the end of the day, it’s not the most efficient design.. by a considerable margin. Worse, it’s losing it’s advantage in terms of performance as well.
I think we can agree that it would be nice to move beyond x86.