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Why would they? They are dominated by gaming benchmarks in a way Apple isn't. For decades it was not efficiency but raw performance, 50% more power usage for 10% more performance was ok.

"The same goes for GPUs, where Apple's M1 GPU completely smoked an RTX3090 in performance-per-watt"

Gamers are not interested in performance-per-watt but fps-per-$.

If some behavior looks strange to you, most probably you don't understand the underlying drivers.



> Gamers are not interested in performance-per-watt but fps-per-$.

I game a decent amount on handheld mode for the switch. Like tens of millions of others.


While others run PlayStation and XBox.

The demographics aren't the same, nor the games.


I game a decent amount on table top games. Like tens of millions of others.




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