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NVIDIA Releases JTX1 ARM Board That Competes With Intel's Skylake i7-6700K (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: NVIDIA has unveiled the Jetson TX1 development board powered by their Tegra X1 SoC. The Jetson TX1 has a Maxwell GPU capable of 1 TFLOP/s, four 64-bit ARM A57 processors, 4GB of RAM, and 16GB of onboard storage. NVIDIA isn't yet allowing media to publish benchmarks, but the company's reported figures show the graphics and deep learning performance to be comparable to an Intel Core i7-6700K while scoring multiple times better on performance-per-Watt. This development board costs $599 (or $299 for the educational version) and consumes less than 10 Watts.
The "deep learning" benchmark is a GPGPU workload which does practically nothing on CPU.
Nvidia has just made a SoC Chip that has about equally fast iGPU than what Intel has, for a lower energy consumption.
But in CPU performance, the Skylake is MUCH faster.
The article is silly. Who would buy a i7-6700K purely for the GPU. If you want that kinda gpu power you can get a dedicated graphics card for much less.
The referenced article is comparing 14nm Intel to 28nm ARM, so yes, the performance per watt is the same provided the Intel chip is built on a massively superior process.