I am interested in what the power consumption of Apple's SoC's are under loads. I am under the impression that Apple is fine using up all of its available TDP for single threaded performance.
The i7 8650U scores really high in GB4, Kali Linux for WSL - 5.7k/18.7k. I assume this is at 25w TDP-up, but still, this is far from the "100w" number being thrown around. These likely do 90% of that at 15w TDP.
If the A12 is using 4.5-7.5w for those scores on TSMC 7nm, it is impressive, but I'm not sure we can say they are blowing Intel or AMD's doors off yet. I have a feeling Zen 2 is going to be outstanding at 7nm, good enough that intel needs to figure out how to raise the performance of its 10nm process quickly, or redesign their microarchitectures.