How much did the core transistor count increase between Zen4 and 5? Not much, right?
And why wouldn't it be possible to achieve the ST performance levels of Apple? Without resorting to discredited ISA superiority arguments....
Exactly! And also there isn't an alternative way to get more ST.
What kind of client workload benefits more from say 2x MT than from 1.5x ST+MT? What kind of client workload needs so much MT that isn't accelerated by GPUs or NPUs already?
And if any of you identify such workload, what's the...
I don't understand requests like these for more MT performance. I mean, these posts are like letters to Santa, so why not wish for higher ST instead? AMD is clearly behind the best (Apple). I'd rather they budget whatever extra transistor they can deploy towards extra ST! What's the trade-off...
Western chip designers (including cloud providers) should do a capital injection to Intel Foundry after the losses from the current situation are allocated to the current holders and creditors. (Ie write down the legacy nodes.) Hedge against the Chinese invasion of Taiwan and/out other...
This is important. If Intel tanks hard(er), will the supply chain (laptop and server makers) be happy to rely solely on AMD? Or will they push strongly to get multiple competitive ARM providers (Qualcomm, Nvidia, Mediatek), now that the switching cost is so low and that entry into that market is...
Using the Phoronix result, this is a ~20% CAGR on performance per inflation adjusted dollar, which is actually good in this late stage Moore's law era.
The parts are also considerably cheaper, at MSRP and adjusting for inflation. (MSRP is the better way to measure this, as all tech products are gradually discounted with time.) You pay about 20% less for 5-15% more performance and ¿40%? less energy consumption. It's not nothing, considering how...
Plus it makes sense for Intel to choose a point in the curve that (barely) improves on their previous product while directing all efficiency+IPC improvements towards curtailing their insane power requirements. Otherwise they're never going to climb down from up there.
Thanks - that's a 16.3% CAGR for AMD and 12.0% for Apple. That's a doubling every 5 and a half years @14% CAGR. It probably is too slow of a rate to unlock new use cases in less than a decade. You can only make Excel so much faster before people stop noticing. And that rate of improvement seems...
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