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This is a bit silly. A9X and other mobile SoC are in absolutely no way comparable in performance, on any metric, with desktop CPUs. You do not get 150W performance from a 10W chip, particularly not when you are lagging in process node.

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I don't think there is much lagging in the node size with the A9 family in comparison to Intel's mobile chips. A9 is a 14-16 nm FinFET design. Not much different than Intel's 14 nm FinFET for core-M. The A9X is clocked at 2.26 GHz compared with a Skylake core-m7 clocked at 1.2-3.1 GHz.

Despite what you said, you in no way addressed or contradicted his point. Clockrate and nm don't tell you performance. Intel's internal architecture has tons of tricks to get more bang for buck out of their cycles. Plus lots of accelerators with extra instructions. Plus modifiable with microcode update. So, a proper comparison would be a number of workloads on each that people use for desktops.

Note: I still haven't seen a mobile that outperforms my old Core Duo 2 laptop. Always slower in both delay and throughput.

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