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		jdsully on April 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The 2020 iPhone SE Yes but AMD is on a much newer node and still only achieves a very slight improvement in IPC nowhere near >2x these benchmarks imply.

skavi on April 23, 2020 [–]

Zen 2 is much more economical in its core area. Lighting cores likely have around 2x the transistors.

Also, and I’m not sure how big of a deal this is, but Zen 2 is the 2nd gen of a practically new arch. Lighting has a lineage of at least 6 generations.

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