• towerful
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    1 year ago

    I did a quick Google.
    https://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/group/green_machines.html

    Is the best actual test data I can find. It uses a physical power meter, so it’s full system (not TDP or self reporting power consumption).
    And it’s a few years out of date.
    Seems like Apple silicon is the winner (and will probably continue to be).
    The Xeon that beats the rpi4 for GFLOPS/watt is an e5v3, which was launched in 2013 and EOL in 2021.
    So there will absolutely be some new Xeon CPUs that will perform better.

    However, for a $50 device, it’s probably the best GFLOPS/watt/$ from what little empirical data I can find