If we took the latest top of the line Snapdragon or Apple A series smartphone and compared it to a high end thin and light laptop like the Surface Pro or Macbook Air circa around 2016 to 2017, how would it compare? I have no doubt that the phone would be more efficient per unit compute power, but would it be able to beat the older laptop in raw performance?
I’m curious especially since both Qualcomm and Apple are now releasing ARM processors that on paper don’t seem that much more powerful than what’s in their phones, but geared toward full laptop computing, so does that mean that even a modern phone can outcompute older laptops?
I can’t prove it, but I believe so, I was watching Nexdock to use with my LG V50. Even yesterday I was looking at this topic, the performance of my phone should be compared to my PC a few years ago, the proof of that is in the video renderings, in this respect the phones are much more capable than the PC’s or Mac’s at least the previous ones to the M1’s.