In which workloads do x86 processors perform way better than ARM

Question

With the current launch of the M1 chip of apple and the good benchmarks we see, I was wondering which tasks work better on x86 processors. I understand that ARM has a simpler instruction set, but in which workload is this relevant (especially workloads of a “normal” user)?

Thanks in advance.

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Answer 1

Mostly it’s a power usage thing, the M1/ARM uses less power than the x86 per instruction. Server class x86 CPUs and GPUs have way more cores but also use a crazy amount of power.