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?
Someone should do some benchmark comparisons. Based on how fast new phone processors have been advancing, I bet the answer will surprisingly be that phones, even with arm processors, are outperforming PCs from a few years ago.