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Yeah - I think it's a question of what the different target markets are willing to pay. A lot of people want gaming laptops, so systems with big GPUs and big C
by p1necone 5y ago
Yeah - I think it's a question of what the different target markets are willing to pay.
A lot of people want gaming laptops, so systems with big GPUs and big CPUs and not so great size/weight/battery life can be had relatively cheap.
But most people that want big CPUs and good battery life but don't care about the GPU so much are people who need the system for their job, so manufacturers can get away with pricing those systems higher.
- 8192kjshad09- 5y agoOut of curiosity what jobs need a good CPU but also can't take advantage of a good GPU? It seems like most of the high performance numerical computing software today is GPU-accelerated. If performance for your job is super important, why isn't your software GPU-accelerated? I might just be naive but it's honestly hard for me to imagine why anybody would need a good CPU and not also want a good GPU.
- imwillofficial 5y agoBecause here in the real world software isn’t GPU optimized in many cases.
- wmf 5y agoSince this is HN... compiling.
- 8192kjshad09- 5y agoGood point, not sure how I didn't see that, I'm a software engineer too.
- invalidname 5y agoCompiling is IO/RAM bound. CPU has impact but not much for most cases.
- katbyte 5y agoStatic code analysis on 100s of mb of code. Pins my m1max for 3min, my 2015 for 15-20ish.
- mbarbar 5y agoI work on static analysis (points-to analysis) that does not use any GPU at all and is mostly single threaded.