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I hate to break it to you, but outside of gaming, fluid sim, and battery life / power draw tests, nothing else matters for modern chips. Schmucks only need the
by eyegor 4y ago
I hate to break it to you, but outside of gaming, fluid sim, and battery life / power draw tests, nothing else matters for modern chips. Schmucks only need the kind of horsepower a phone is capable of, or want to know how long it will last. The only people who care about performance either really care because more perf = more dollars (fluid sim, hft, etc.) or they're gamers.
- brookst 4y agoI use CAD for a hobby. My 5950x has 16 cores and I desperately wish I could afford a 64 core desktop because each model takes 60 - 240 seconds to compute. That’s a pain when it takes multiple iterations to get a good design, and it leads to more complicated programming to offer quick vs detailed model creation, and that complexity leads to bugs. So yeah I care, and not for more dollars.
- throwaway2037 4y agoMostly, I agree with your post. Related: I find browsing the web on an older phone is awful. A great example: Google Maps is one of the most intensive web apps that I use. After each phone upgrade (~3years), it a huge leap forward in performance. I assume this can be explained by improved WiFi, CPU clock/cores/cache, and main memory. What is your guess about which part of the upgrade is most impactful? (Let's assume the version of Chrome is roughly equivalent between new and old phone.) My guess: It is mostly due to improved CPU (clock/cores/cache).
- torginus 4y agoWhile I kind of agree with you, anecdotally the things people actually do are still slow. Opening up a large project in IntelliJ or browsing through Reddit is anything but smooth for me, even though I have a pretty recent CPU.