I believe it when I see it. At least watt for watt I have some serious doubts.
It’s not hard to outperform an M1 Max. Just use a ton of cores and high frequencies.
But that uses a ton of battery and puts off a ton of heat.
That’s my favorite thing about my M1 Mac. It has no fan, doesn’t get hot, has TONS of battery, and still performs well.
If Intel can match/beat Apple at similar power/thermal levels THATS an achievement.
But laptops shouldn’t need to draw 35 watts minimum. If it can’t scale down when idle I think I’d pass.
https://twitter.com/tomwarren/status/1478514671980269574
It doesn’t show the new Intel processors going below about 30 watts.
Then again I kind of doubt the M1 Max chips can’t get below 20 W.