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Most of the time your PC isn't working hard, and it makes sense to use lower power cores to perform basic tasks.
by Synaesthesia 5y ago
Most of the time your PC isn't working hard, and it makes sense to use lower power cores to perform basic tasks.
- webmobdev 5y agoI understand that perfectly. But how willing are you to sacrifice performance for that, is my point. There's a reason why CPU makers focus on building faster chips - that's what people care about most on Desktop PCs.
- Synaesthesia 5y agoYou don't need to sacrifice performance since CPUs step down automatically. For a hybrid design they only use the smaller cores for less demanding tasks. In fact this design gives a perceived increase in performamce as the author has written about.
- webmobdev 5y agoOfcourse you are sacrificing performance when you put slower cores alongside fast cores, instead of using all fast cores only. And for what - ARM cpu cores already are very efficient. So saving a few more watts with the slower cores, at the expense of performance (faster cores) isn't a worthwhile tradeoff when you are doing some cpu intensive task on your desktop. Saving a few extra watts matters on phones / tablets / laptops because you can use it longer on battery.