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>I blame Intel for that. As you should. I worked at Intel back in the 00s when they were in the "megahertz wars". All they talked about internally was "we're
by midoridensha 4y ago
>I blame Intel for that.
As you should. I worked at Intel back in the 00s when they were in the "megahertz wars". All they talked about internally was "we're winning the MHz wars!!! Yay!". When anyone mentioned power consumption, or how fucking loud the cooling fans were, or MIPS/Watt, they didn't care; all that mattered was MHz. Hitching their wagon to RAMBUS memory was part of this. Then they got pissed and indignant when consumers didn't want to spend a fortune on RAMBUS memory and bought AMD CPUs with cheap SDRAM instead.
- sliken 4y agoThat fits. The p4 had a long pipeline, high clock speed, and poor perf per MHz. AMD pushed the general performance score, forget the name, and seems like the succeeded. Doubly so since they shipped x86-64 first, which people did care about. I wrote a few microbenchmarks to explore the performance promises of rambus, and didn't find anything.