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On the same line, watt for watt, pen and paper demolishes anything Apple has to offer. Now and forever.

One single, isolated metric is not the way to compare things

How much energy do you need to put into a human for it to calculate a 10 digit multiplication?

We supposedly consume about 100 watts at rest. Given that my flops are low (less than one!), I don't think I'm an efficient processor. At least for floating point operations. Producing paper and ink cartridges isn't free, either.

I might be competitive with an LLM + GPUs, but I imagine it'll demolish me on throughput.

I run inference pretty efficiently with those 100 watts.

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