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Cores! Gigahertz! Terabytes! Odds are... still f-ing busted. How will the numbers look after the next Spectre/TLBleed/etc patch? I'd be more impressed by a
by jstewartmobile 8y ago
Cores! Gigahertz! Terabytes! Odds are... still f-ing busted.
How will the numbers look after the next Spectre/TLBleed/etc patch?
I'd be more impressed by a boring processor that works.
- imglorp 8y agoGood question. It's probably WAY too soon to expect any hardware that's not full of vulnerabilities in the pipeline, TPM, and microcode. They need to redesign their cores from the ground up. When will that happen?
- twtw 8y agoNever. Not going to happen.
- jstewartmobile 8y agoThat OC is scoring at -4 is proof of that.
- jstewartmobile 8y agoI don't believe taking out questionable overwrought performance voodoo would constitute "redesign[ing] their cores from the ground up". Just like any other form of engineering, you know when you've solved a problem, and you know when you've made a hail mary pass. Take out the hail mary passes. In most other areas of engineering where there is still some concept of liability, the process is: validation first, save hot-rodding for v2. CPU industry is largely unencumbered by liability, driven by specious benchmarks, and has no use for that process.