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Outside of specialized instruction sets, I wouldn't expect major leaps in single-threaded performance from either Intel or AMD for the foreseeable future.
by theevilsharpie 6y ago
Outside of specialized instruction sets, I wouldn't expect major leaps in single-threaded performance from either Intel or AMD for the foreseeable future.
- Causality1 6y agoIs that because more cores for a given transistor count better addresses today's computing needs or because we've hit a limit where adding more transistors to a single core doesn't give us more performance anymore?
- theevilsharpie 6y agoIt's because the design techniques that allow a core to run more instructions per clock -- wider execution units, shorter pipelines, etc. -- also tend to reduce the maximum achievable clock speed.