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Somehow this heterogeneous architecture makes little sense to me since the i9 as a whole consumes lots of power - about 250W - significantly more than previous
by prima-facie 5y ago
Somehow this heterogeneous architecture makes little sense to me since the i9 as a whole consumes lots of power - about 250W - significantly more than previous generation of Intel processors. This also introduces an irking complication with the thread scheduler. I thought the whole idea behind adding E cores was to save power and deliver good-enough performance.
Why even bother when you could just have fewer symmetrical cores like P10.
- baq 5y agothe i9 is a race car. nobody actually buys race cars to do real work unless your job is racing cars... or posting nice pictures of race cars. complaining that a race car is inefficient is missing the point. focus on i5s and i7s.
- Comevius 5y agoThe previous generation could use 250W at certain all core workloads, Intel just never marketed the difference between PL1 and PL2 for TDP. Most chips can only use that much power for a short time due to thermal limitation, so you need both adequate cooling and a suitable workload to use 250W, this haven't changed, the typical power consumption is however lower.