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I would argue Haswell is the real "still works great today" threshold, with its AVX2 support. eDRAM Broadwell is even more modern. Its got truly beefy integrat
by brucethemoose2 3y ago
I would argue Haswell is the real "still works great today" threshold, with its AVX2 support.
eDRAM Broadwell is even more modern. Its got truly beefy integrated graphics and a Ryzen X3D like cache, but it largely flew under the radar at the time, and Intel never made anything quite like it again.
- undersuit 3y agoDDR4 had the same bandwidth as eDRAM so Skylake revised the setup[1] to purely take advantage of the latency. DDR5 is faster still. [1] https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/skylake_(client)#eDRAM_architectural_changes https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/skylak...
- terribleperson 3y agoI've been using a 5930k for... 8 years, maybe? It has certainly aged gracefully.