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baybal2 on Oct 27, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple’s A14 Packs 134M Transistors/mm²

Not so fast, especially these days. CPU power consumption is highly non-linear.

You may well be benefitting from running a task longer, at a slower speed, and using less transistors.

saagarjha on Oct 27, 2020 [–]

In general time-to-sleep is still the defining factor in keeping battery life long. Sure, there are low-power cores, but I believe most UI code will not run at it since it's given high priority by the system.

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