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Oh hey, AVX-512 is finally coming to consumer desktop CPUs... like 6 years after Intel originally was planning?
by stagger87 6y ago
Oh hey, AVX-512 is finally coming to consumer desktop CPUs... like 6 years after Intel originally was planning?
- topspin 6y agoOne wonders whether the beating Intel is is taking will lead it forego license-based downclocking with Rocket Lake.
- wmf 6y agoThe AVX512 downclocking was to prevent the chip from overheating; one does not just turn that off.
- topspin 6y agoYou don't improve thermal performance by backporting to less efficient nodes either.
- stagger87 6y agoI hope so, but they might not have a choice. I think the next AMD chips are rumored to have AVX-512 and being on a smaller process node will help immensely with heat. At 14nm and being a backport that may not be optimized for 14nm, heat management may be a problem and downclocking still required. Despite that, it is still probably too late anyways. My industry has moved on to GPUs and FPGAs for real-time compute, but I remember when everyone was waiting for 512 after utilizing AVX-256 for some time. Although the thought of a 64-core threadripper with avx-512 at 5GHz on all cores is appealing.
- The_rationalist 6y agoSource for the rumor? Also, AVX512 can be on many workloads much faster than gpus.