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A MacBook Pro has lower peak thermal output but proportionally lower performance. For a given task you’d be dissipating somewhat similar heat, the MacBook Pro would just be spreading it out over a longer period of time.

nVidia GPUs actually have similar efficiency, despite all of Apple’s marketing. The difference is they the nVidia GPUs have a much higher ceiling.



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