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AMD might bench higher in multi-threaded benchmarks, but Intel dominates in single core benchmarks because of the smarter silicon and higher clock speeds. That
by aetherspawn 5y ago
AMD might bench higher in multi-threaded benchmarks, but Intel dominates in single core benchmarks because of the smarter silicon and higher clock speeds.
That makes them still faaaar more suitable to certain workloads... like Engineering, where most of the tools designed in MATLAB (ie Simulink) are still single threaded.
I recently upgraded from an i7-10750 to an i9-11950 and the different is very noticeable IRL even though most of the cores sit around doing nothing all day!
- DarkmSparks 5y agoIf you only care about single core performance you dont need a flagship chip, you could buy an entire M1 system from Apple with the same single core performance for the price intel are charging just for the CPU.
- dagw 5y agoyou could buy an entire M1 system from Apple Unless you need a reasonable amounts of RAM, a decent graphics card, or to be able to run a large class of professional software. Plus if you check benchmarks you'll see that the 11900k still beats the M1 in several single thread benchmarks
- DarkmSparks 5y agoIf you cared about performance/benchmarks you'd switch to a multithreaded/parallel alternative and have the compute finish in 1/16th of the time on a 5950X. Matlab/simulink make pretty heavy use of multithreading: https://www.mathworks.com/discovery/matlab-multicore.html https://www.mathworks.com/discovery/matlab-multicore.html Even Excel runs its computations in parallel these days.
- aetherspawn 5y agoAll the toolchains I use (ie Simulink plugins) only support Windows unfortunately.
- DarkmSparks 5y agoThat must be torture. Hope it wasn't your idea to lock yourself in like that. You should try R, you'll probably find there are better versions written in that, probably even ones that support distributed compute.