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Compute (rather than I/O) heavy and highly multithreaded stuff skews towards AMD. Most applications benefit more from Intel's caching and single-core turbo boos
by entropicdrifter 8y ago
Compute (rather than I/O) heavy and highly multithreaded stuff skews towards AMD. Most applications benefit more from Intel's caching and single-core turbo boost features than they do from AMD's more discrete style of multithreading and weaker single-core mode tech.
- zozbot123 8y ago> Compute (rather than I/O) heavy and highly multithreaded stuff skews towards AMD. This. It's worth noting that newer, legacy-free programming languages make it a lot more feasible to parallelize compute-heavy parts of the code, and to deal with the "Memory wall" (i.e. the rise of memory-bandwidth as a bottleneck especially in high-CPU-frequency, high-core-count systems) by working with efficient, low-level representations of data. This will help not just AMD, but also newer entrants in this market segment such as ARM vendors.
- wbl 8y agoDo the rooflines of these chips show that pattern? Intel has a big vector unit with some seriously useful instructions in it, pushing the arithmetic speed up.