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May be more energy efficient but likely less powerful overall in general case.
by shmerl 6y ago
May be more energy efficient but likely less powerful overall in general case.
- chongli 6y agoIf you want a computer with maximum general purpose power, you can buy a Threadripper today. For the rest of us who use laptops, we want energy efficiency without throttling the machine to death. Special purpose cores are a great alternative to heavy throttling of a general purpose machine.
- shmerl 6y agoThat depends. I'm fine with using Ryzen 9 with 12 cores without the need to go to a Threadripper. I doubt it would work in a laptop well. It does need a good cooler.
- FpUser 6y ago>"For the rest of us who use laptops, we want energy efficiency without throttling the machine to death" I am not sure about worldwide ratio of "us" vs them. Personally I have desktop and laptop. Laptop is not as powerful as desktop but it is still a little monster soon to be replaced with the big monster of laptop. Laptop is being used for going to client, general development when staying out of the main office for extended time in summer etc. I am not using it in a settings where the external power is not available so I do not really care about the efficiency. Rather I care about performance, especially during builds.