Comment by aurareturn

4 hours ago

Except Intel's Core 5 320 is almost certainly bigger than the A18 Pro CPU.

They both have 2 P-cores and 4 E-cores.

  • Yes, they both have the same and Intel cores are known to be bigger than AMD and Apple cores but poor in area/performance.

    So I'm not sure what your original post about smaller cores is all about considering that the A18 Pro CPU is almost certainly smaller in actual die size.

    • It's not about die area at all. It's about the SSD and chipset and WiFi etc. each using power on top of what the CPU uses, and ending up as a much larger percentage of system power draw for a 15W CPU than for the same system with a 60W CPU that has around four times the multi-thread performance by having four times as many of the exact same cores.

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