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> AMD should see the writing on the wall and start designing ARM CPUs. ARM's brand new 80-core system struggles to match AMD's year old 64-core system, while a
by kllrnohj 6y ago
> AMD should see the writing on the wall and start designing ARM CPUs.
ARM's brand new 80-core system struggles to match AMD's year old 64-core system, while also being entirely unable to run some of the workloads either at all or in the 2S configuration. And with mostly comparable power draw and a much worse turbo story that ARM is trying to pretend is somehow a good thing.
Competition is great, but it's a bit premature to claim "the writing is on the wall" is it not? AMD has historically made ARM CPUs in the past, they're not rigidly stuck to x86 like Intel is, but it's also not like x86 is in immediate danger, either.
- klelatti 6y agoIt's not Arm's system it's Ampere's. Arm is claiming nothing about this cpu.
- kllrnohj 6y agoThis system uses ARM's Neoverse-N1 CPU cores. Ampere put it in a socket, but it's still "ARM's" CPU core. This isn't a custom design like Apple's CPUs. And per the article it sounds like it's ARM's fault this can't exceed 3.3 ghz. That seems to be a Neoverse-N1 limitation: "Fundamentally, the Altra’s handling of frequency and power in such a manner is simply a by-product of the Neoverse-N1 cores not being able to clock in higher than 3.3GHz"
- klelatti 6y agoSystem != Core for a whole range of reasons as you know - not least price. I actually think that Ampere should get the credit for producing a system this competitive (even with an off the shelf core).