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But the Pi 3 didn't. You'd think with the process improvements they'll be able to have more performance in the same heat envelope, but they want to do their own Pentium IV...



Process improvements can only go that far - register banks, speculative execution, instruction reordering, many execution units and so on use power, but are needed because the processor can be faster, but the memory is still much slower.


I'd agree except the laptop i'm typing this on seems to use 4.5 W right now, the whole system :)

I don't expect Apple like power/performance ratio from everyone, but they could at least try...




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