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Sad, 10 years of nothing from intel but single digit uplifts and increasing power. I think apple sort of proves that there is plenty of single threaded perf upl
by StillBored 6y ago
Sad, 10 years of nothing from intel but single digit uplifts and increasing power. I think apple sort of proves that there is plenty of single threaded perf uplift available with the right designs (aka one not designed for a server). Even AMD traditionally trailing is easily surpassing them now too, the AMD core that is easily matching or beating them isn't even close to the best desktop part they have (and rightfully so, a desktop with 8 cores... lets see phones with 8 cores have been a thing for how many years again?).
Couldn't happen to a nicer company, but for the health of the industry I hope they have something to keep up with the Arm hordes. What we need is a good decade of a 3+ way back and forth between an arm vendor or three and amd and intel to really push the industry again.
BTW: Just imagine what apple could do with a 300W power budget!
- judge2020 6y ago> BTW: Just imagine what apple could do with a 300W power budget! We'll likely see by the end of 2022 (probably with less than 300w): https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/7/22158264/apple-32-core-processor-arm-mac-macbook-pro https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/7/22158264/apple-32-core-pr...
- nightski 6y agoYet they are still the king of single threaded performance (barely). I'm not so quick to rule out Intel, even if I have no love for them. While the M1 was extremely impressive from a power efficiency standpoint, I think the jury is far from out on whether Apple will be able to take those gains and scale them to serious computers.
- lukevp 6y agoWhere are you getting that they’re the king of single thread? That was true (barely) last gen of AMD, and is not true anymore. AMD is better at single and multi core as well as power efficiency. From the article: > Our results clearly show that Intel’s performance, while substantial, still trails its main competitor, AMD. In a core-for-core comparison, Intel is slightly slower and a lot more inefficient.
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- aryonoco 6y agoThey certainly are not king of single threaded performance. Both Zen 3 and Apple's M1 comfortably best Intel in single core performance, using much less power to achieve that. Intel lost the single threaded crown in mid 2020.
- philistine 6y agoI assure you my M1 Macbook Air is a serious computer. I know what you mean by serious, but honestly the only thing lacking from the M1 chip is connectivity. All three computers Apple released have the same limitation; two PCIe lanes for external connections.