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So are we going to have "Core Wars" to replace the "MHz Wars" of previous decades?
by msla 6y ago
So are we going to have "Core Wars" to replace the "MHz Wars" of previous decades?
- mox1 6y agoNo probably not. More of a "Benchmark vs. Power Consumption" war I think. Power users understand today that max MHZ doesn't even matter anymore, for various reasons. I think power consumption (even in desktops, servers) will be a large factor / marketing number. I think the big tech sites will continue to hammer home some type of "CPU work / watt" type metric, which is roughly like "time to complete some standardized workload vs. power used to do it"
- rsynnott 6y agoNo, but we've had performance per watt wars for years now. It's why prior to Zen you only saw AMD chips on the cheapest of laptops, and also now why Intel is panicking.