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Intel still has an edge in single-core performance for laptop CPUs, and I agree that for a laptop that matters more than multicore due to the sorry state of mul
by fmajid 6y ago
Intel still has an edge in single-core performance for laptop CPUs, and I agree that for a laptop that matters more than multicore due to the sorry state of multithreading in most apps.
That said, the cash cow is servers, and the AMD advantage in cores, RAM and I/O is overwhelming except for a very few niches that care about single-thread performance (high frequency trading is probably most of it).
- cowmix 6y agoI dunno, I think my kid's 4900U laptop is the single core king. Right?
- Synaesthesia 6y agoIt is but Intel still manufactures in larger volumes by far.
- BobbyJo 6y agoHaving a worse product in higher volume is hardly any argument that intel had an edge. If anything it's evidence that they are crashing faster than supply changes can shift.
- wmf 6y agoNo, Tiger Lake is faster (sometimes a little, sometimes a lot). From a sibling comment: https://www.anandtech.com/show/16084/intel-tiger-lake-review-deep-dive-core-11th-gen/8 https://www.anandtech.com/show/16084/intel-tiger-lake-review...
- mamon 6y agoThat compares to 4800U, not 4900U GP mentioned...
- selectodude 6y agoUnless the 4900U is twice as fast as the 4800U (it's not), Intel's stuff is still faster.
- srtjstjsj 6y agoPeak performance doesn't matter in laptops, due to heat. Performance per watt matters.
- mtgx 6y agoExactly, and Intel has been all about peak/short-burst performance over the past 5-6 generations, if not longer, just so it can keep winning benchmarks. Now that led them to a new microarchitecture that will likely suck on servers and laptops, due to the high power usage, and might not even win on the desktop compared to Zen 4 CPUs (Alder Lake will mostly compete with Zen 4, not Zen 3).