(03-12-2015, 07:49 PM)gstanford Wrote:(03-12-2015, 07:16 PM)SickBeast Wrote: I agree, it's ridiculous. Had my wife not spilled miso soup on my 2500k I would still be using it as well. Apple's A8X can now match intel's mobile i5 CPUs and that is a <5w processor. Pretty soon Nvidia will overtake them with the Tegra CPUs as well and we will see what happens. Intel is eventually going to have to compete with the ARM chips otherwise x86 is just going to die completely one day.What a ridiculous argument. Key words being "mobile i5" and not the latest mobile i5's either.
ARM can't hold a candle to an intel desktop CPU.
Yes, the A8X can beat the latest Haswell based mobile i5. I will look for the article.
*edit*
Here you go:
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/192...-modern-pc
My mistake, it doesn't beat the i5 but it comes close. Like I said, give it another year or two and Intel is in serious trouble.