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Yeah I don’t see what AMD has to be glad about here. Their new CPUs are not remotely competitive with Intel on realistic workloads, mainly because their cache a
by ebikelaw 8y ago
Yeah I don’t see what AMD has to be glad about here. Their new CPUs are not remotely competitive with Intel on realistic workloads, mainly because their cache and TLB architecture is already poor. Intel had to introduce more TLB misses to fix this, AMD starts with that.
- sounds 8y agoThat's a pretty bold claim to make. I assert that AMD is competitive [1] [2] and is definitely cutting into Intel sales [3] [4]. Even Intel's CEO thinks so [5]. Care to back up your claims with well known, respected, repeatable benchmarks? [1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/11544/intel-skylake-ep-vs-amd-epyc-7000-cpu-battle-of-the-decade https://www.anandtech.com/show/11544/intel-skylake-ep-vs-amd... [2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/12084/epyc-benchmarks-by-intel-our-analysis- https://www.anandtech.com/show/12084/epyc-benchmarks-by-inte... [3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/06/20/how-has-the-amd-epyc-server-processor-done-in-its-first-year/#27ad05602d31 https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2018/06/20/how-... [4] https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/05/29/amd-keeps-chipping-away-at-intels-chip-dominance.aspx https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/05/29/amd-keeps-chipping... [5] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/11/amd-will-create-stiff-competition-for-intel-next-year-analyst.html https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/11/amd-will-create-stiff-compet... Even Greg-KH warns about Intel's performance due to these exploits: http://www.eweek.com/security/linux-kernel-developer-criticizes-intel-for-meltdown-spectre-response http://www.eweek.com/security/linux-kernel-developer-critici...