You need 7-10 times less instant coffee to make a cup though, so your beans are a lot more expensive in the end. From my experience, cup of coffee is either 2 grams of Nescafe Gold or 16 grams of beans.

On recent versions Shift+Win+- also work, and Win+- produces en dash.

Of course, but I assume you don't really need to install third-party apps to control hardware. In my case Alienware and Dell bloat came from me setting up an Alienware monitor. MSI bloat came from setting up MSI GPU. Intel Killer stuff just got automatically installed by Windows Update, it seems.

> Microsoft Defender

This one I immediately disable after Windows installation so no problems here :)

On work we get CrowdStrike Falcon, it seems pretty tame for now. Guess it depends on IT-controlled scan settings though.

It may be the software problem as well. On Windows I regularly need to find which new app started to eat battery like crazy. Usually it ends up being something third-party related to hardware, like Alienware app constantly making WMI requests (high CPU usage of svchost.exe hosting a WMI provider, disabling Alienware service helped), Intel Killer Wi-Fi software doing something when I did not even know it was installed on my PC (disabling all related services helped), Dell apps doing something, MSI apps doing something... you get the idea.

It seems like a class of problems which you simply can't have on macOS because of closed ecosystem.

Without all this stuff my Intel 155H works pretty decently, although I'm sure it is far away from M-series in terms of performance.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-archive

    mkdir -p  && git archive --remote= --format=tar.gz   | tar -xzC 

On 5090 same model produces ~170 tokens/s.

My TLP and LPMD configs: https://gist.github.com/vient/f8448d56c1191bf6280122e7389fc1...

TLP: don't remember details now, as I recall scaling governor does not do anything on modern CPUs when energy perf policy is used. CPU_MAX_PERF_ON_BAT=30 seems to be crucial for battery savings, sacrificing performance (not too much for everyday use really) for joules in battery. CPU_HWP_DYN_BOOST_ON_BAT=0 further prohibits using turbo on battery, just in case.

LPMD: again, did not use it much in the end so not sure what even is written in this config. May need additional care to run alongside TLP.

Also, I used these boot parameters. For performance, I think, beneficial one are *mitigations, nohz_full, rcu*

    quiet splash sysrq_always_enabled=1 mitigations=off i915.mitigations=off transparent_hugepage=always iommu=pt intel_iommu=on nohz_full=all rcu_nocbs=all rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy=1 rcupdate.rcu_expedited=1 cryptomgr.notests no_timer_check noreplace-smp page_alloc.shuffle=1 tsc=reliable

Shouldn't they be the same if we are speaking about same precision? For example, [0] shows M4 Max 17 TFLOPS FP32 vs MAX+ 395 29.7 TPLOFS FP32 - not sure what exact operation was measured but at least it should be the same operation. Hard to make definitive statements without access to both machines.

[0] https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-apple_m4_max_16_cp...

[0] https://github.com/linrunner/TLP

[1] https://github.com/intel/intel-lpmd

Here is M4 Max CPU https://opendata.blender.org/devices/Apple%20M4%20Max/ - median score 475

Ryzen MAX+ PRO 395 shows median score 448 (can't link because the site does not seem to cope well with + or / in product names)

Resulting in M4 winning by 6%

Edit: it is always second soft refresh for me that starts showing HTTP/3. Computers work in mysterious ways sometimes.

Now, if we say "Zen5 is the leading consumer CPU for AI" then no objections can be made, consumer Intel models do not even support AVX-512.

Also, note that for inference they compare with Xeon 8592+ which is the top Emerald Rapids model. Not sure if comparison with Granite Rapids would have been more appropriate but they surely dodged the AMX bullet by testing FP32 precision instead of BF16.