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I feel that P and E split requires putting an asterisk next to the core count. it is dishonest to sell a CPU with N fully featured cores and M gimped cores as a
by throwaway0x7E6 4y ago
I feel that P and E split requires putting an asterisk next to the core count. it is dishonest to sell a CPU with N fully featured cores and M gimped cores as a CPU with N+M cores
- Zardoz84 4y agoThis have the same vibes that AMD FX cpus "core" count.
- rocqua 4y agoThat is indeed how they are marketed. Either as 8+4core or 8p4ecore. I have only seen the 8+8core referred to as a 16 core machine once. And it was Apple making a comparison to Intel and calling Intel's cpu a 16 core.
- throwaway0x7E6 4y agooh yeah, I looked it up, you are right. I didn't notice that before
- giantrobot 4y agoEven worse (to me) is the P-cores have two way hyperthreading enabled so Intel says the CPU supports N(2)+M threads. While Intel has always behaved as if their hyperthreading meant a chip had N(2) core of performance, in the real world it's was more like N(1.5) at best. So a CPU with 20 threads has maybe eight running at full speed of a P-core and the other twelve pretty gimped comparatively.