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Either give me all Zen 4 cores or all 4c cores. I don't want any Intel-inspired "multithread-winning marketing" hybrids, thank you very much! Pure 16c Zen4 or 2
by treprinum 3y ago
Either give me all Zen 4 cores or all 4c cores. I don't want any Intel-inspired "multithread-winning marketing" hybrids, thank you very much! Pure 16c Zen4 or 24c 4c would be great though.
- wmf 3y agoWhy? All compact cores would be bad for many desktop workloads because the frequency is low.
- treprinum 3y agoAgainst hybrid - scheduler issues, like when Intel E-cores slowed down networking or NVMe massively. I can live without those surprises happily. And all small cores are great for home or small servers.
- PH95VuimJjqBqy 3y agobecause most of us are not in the habit of swapping our processors between laptop and desktop. Give us the power or give us the energy savings, this hybrid is both the best AND worst of both worlds.
- tibbydudeza 3y agoDoing what ???. Very few folks have workloads that need so many cores.
- treprinum 3y agoOK, so 8 cores. But homogeneous, either 4 or 4c but not mixed as schedulers are crappy and you end up having your slow cores in charge of your fast 25Gb LAN and be surprised it only gives you like 7Gb instead... Nightmare performance stuff like that common with Intel E-cores.
- tibbydudeza 3y agoI have yet to see programs written with a multi-core approach in mind perhaps maybe except game programmers who had to suck it up with the PS3 with it's wacko PPE and SPU's or Xbox 360 with it's 3 PowerPC cores. It is a pain to write multi-threaded app - so one browser tab = one core.
- treprinum 3y agoYMMV - I used to write apps with 60,000+ threads 10 years ago.