Watch out Intel, here comes Apple's A9X!

[Coaxialgamer]

isn't the A9X running on smaller transistors than the CoreM?

actually , the a9x is built on tsmc's 16nm process , but the core m is based on broadwell/skylake (14 nm)

[Biased Opinion]

Who's making that claim? OP? 

A clock for clock comparison only make sense if you are comparing, for example, an intel sandy-bridge to a skylake processor.

the title of this thread is literally "watch out intel here comes apples a9x". Clock for clock IPC comparisons are always the best way to compare raw CPU performance unless its within the same architecture which this is most certainly not. From there then you test for power envelope.

[DocSwag]

Who's making that claim? OP? 

A clock for clock comparison only make sense if you are comparing, for example, an intel sandy-bridge to a skylake processor.

Sandy bridge and skylake are completely different architectures, and skylake tends to have about 25% higher ipc than sandy. If you took a 4.9 ghz 2600k and a 4.7 ghz 6700k according to you the sandy would be better but in real life the skylake is about 20% better.

[tsk]

the title of this thread is literally "watch out intel here comes apples a9x". Clock for clock IPC comparisons are always the best way to compare raw CPU performance unless its within the same architecture which this is most certainly not. From there then you test for power envelope.

Yeah, so OP is the only one making that claim. Testing two different CPUs, from different manufacturing nodes and with different instruction sets clock-for-clock, makes absolutely no sense at all.

Nor have I ever seen such a test. What would the purpose of it be? See their relative performance at the same number of MHz? That info has zero value.

 

Sandy bridge and skylake are completely different architectures, and skylake tends to have about 25% higher ipc than sandy. If you took a 4.9 ghz 2600k and a 4.7 ghz 6700k according to you the sandy would be better but in real life the skylake is about 20% better.

You mistunderstand me, the reason you would do that comparison is to see exactly how much the same manufacturer have improved their IPC, clock-for-clock with a new architecture. 

[TroubleKlef]

If any company were to challenge Intel in this market it would be Apple. That being said, Intel is a giant in the market and there's a reason why Apple uses their stuff for their computers.