News Liquid nitrogen-cooled M4 iPad Pro flaunts remarkable single-core performance gains — M4 outperforms M3 Max and M2 Ultra

[Wimpers]

This just in! Overclocked CPU outperforms Stock CPU!!! Halt the Press'

Yup, the nerd equivalent of see how fast my car is with it's extra NOS tanks and special ethanol fuel, thousand dollar tyres and computer controlled gearbox.
Those are not real life situations and I'm not impressed you can crank up a CPU to 10GHz while cooled at -195 °C when it's supposed to be above 250-300 degrees hotter.

 

[bit_user]

Yup, the nerd equivalent of see how fast my car is with it's extra NOS tanks and special ethanol fuel, thousand dollar tyres and computer controlled gearbox.

Not really. That's normal LN2 overclocking. This is some guy with a LN2 pot merely sitting on the outside of an otherwise intact and fully standard iPad.

He probably could've gotten the same results by:

1. Put it in the freezer to pre-chill it.
2. Taken it out to start the benchmark.
3. Chucked it back in the freezer until after the benchmark finished.

Not sure what the car analogy for that would be, but the point is he didn't actually mod the ipad, at all.

Those are not real life situations

Maybe if you're using one outside on a cold winter day?

I'm not impressed you can crank up a CPU to 10GHz while cooled at -195 °C when it's supposed to be above 250-300 degrees hotter.

It boosted to the exact same boost clock it normally does, except that it was able to sustain it.

And no, being an iPad, they can't let it ride the 100 C redline, like an Intel desktop CPU. Because it's a tablet, if they let it get too hot, people will get burnt. So, I'd wager it's not allowed to go higher than about 50 C before throttling.