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In what universe did Zen 1 fail? Zen 1 was one of the best-performing designs in the world and scaled very well to high core counts. The fact that Zen 2 is bet
by shituonui 5y ago
In what universe did Zen 1 fail? Zen 1 was one of the best-performing designs in the world and scaled very well to high core counts.
The fact that Zen 2 is better doesn't reduce the excellence of Zen 1.
- ksec 5y ago>In what universe did Zen 1 fail? Failed in the context of NUMA, not the product or uArch. Which is still an issue with Zen 2. Only better managed.
- shituonui 5y agoThey made a tradeoff of having higher and less uniform memory access. This was not a failure. It was a decision that paid off.