The Smartphone CPU Review You NEED to Watch!

Why HN readers recommended it

HN people cite it as detailed data on mobile SoC efficiency, sustained performance and ARM core efficiency curves.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Geekerwan

Topic

smartphone cpu power efficiency

Format

explainer

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

8

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2023

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• This doesn't really showcase how much Apple's chips are as much as how far Qualcom has fallen behind. On the other hand, the results also show how much work Apple will need to put into their GPUs, as the clearly inferior chip is still beating …

• No, but there is evidence that Geekbench doesn't do a good job of measuring sustained performance. This video from Geekerwan takes more of a sustained performance / thermal throttling perspective. [VIDEO]

• Someone else posted a really compelling video where they test the power efficiency of Android and Apple phones. [VIDEO] Its really quite informative.