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Not to take away from their success but their recent progress have been more like them catching up to Intel. It will be interesting to see if they can truly pul
by esgwpl 6y ago
Not to take away from their success but their recent progress have been more like them catching up to Intel. It will be interesting to see if they can truly pull ahead though.
- vbezhenar 6y agoIntel is already behind judging by core count in every segment. You can't buy 16-core consumer Intel CPU, you can't buy 64-core workstation or server Intel CPU.
- pedrocr 6y agoOr an 8-core laptop CPU. AMD has a win across the board right now.
- johncalvinyoung 6y agoIntel does have 8-core i9 laptop CPUs in the H bracket (45W). https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/core/i9-processors/i9-9880h.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/... released Q2'19. What they don't have a SKU for quite yet is a 8C16T U-class (15W) part like the AMD Ryzen 7 4800U. https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-7-4800u https://www.amd.com/en/products/apu/amd-ryzen-7-4800u
- pedrocr 6y agoI stand corrected. I only shop for laptops with the U class parts.
- johncalvinyoung 6y agoEntirely fair. My usage is on the other end--I wouldn't be familiar with the 15W offerings if I hadn't been tracking Ryzen mobile development or shopping for a new machine for my father.
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- selectodude 6y agohttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/05/apple-introduces-first-8-core-macbook-pro-the-fastest-mac-notebook-ever/ https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/05/apple-introduces-firs... Hm?
- hddherman 6y agoDepends on how you look at it, with pure horsepower they have passed Intel in performance already, seeing how they can just put 64 cores on a CPU. The single thread gap has also been closing rapidly, and with Zen 3 on the horizon they could pass Intel in this segment, too, especially since Intel has been delaying 10nm forever.
- pjmlp 6y agoExcept most devs don't have any idea of what to do with them, and they end up mostly managing OS processes, containers, GC and JIT background processing, VM instances.
- pedrocr 6y agoMaybe for 64 that's true but for mainstream usage getting 8 cores in a laptop instead of 4 is a massive gain. That's effectively what has happened in the current laptop lines with AMD having twice the cores with the same power usage and single-thread performance. Here's the comparison of the top-spec AMD and Intel CPUs available in the just released T14s: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i7-10610U-vs-AMD-Ryzen-7-PRO-4750U/3738vs3740 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/Intel-i7-10610U-vs-AMD-... If your workload is running a single-app that may be underused but particularly in home-office mode I'm constantly doing VCs, having 4 or 5 browser tabs that are heavy, Office for documents, etc. It doesn't matter if all those are a single thread, I'd be filling up the 8 cores and probably taking advantage of the 16 threads from SMT as well.
- pjmlp 6y agoExcept mainstream usage is mostly about Core i3 and i5 laptops, yes even for coding. Those are the typical units that externs get from customers' IT, when it isn't some kind of cloud based VM. And regular consumers don't even know what they own, rather what the guy at the store or some relative has given as advice.
- pedrocr 6y ago
- dvfjsdhgfv 6y agoWell, Threadripper 3990X CPU beats Xeon Platinum 8280 by a large margin. I can't imagine choosing the latter over the former for any reason, really.