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An ARM64 is "a very powerful computer"? The whole promise with ARM is better thermals and long battery life, not screaming performance. With the thermals/cpu no
by glitchc 2y ago
An ARM64 is "a very powerful computer"? The whole promise with ARM is better thermals and long battery life, not screaming performance. With the thermals/cpu not working, we don't even get that.
- viraptor 2y agoM4 crushing benchmarks and AWS running Graviton 2 would disagree on the idea of "whole premise".
- ksec 2y agoI always knew hardware discussions on HN were below the normal standards. But sometimes I am still surprised at how low it can go.
- simfree 2y agoThe finer grained performance per watt vs silicon cost set in the context of use case is just lost in HN hardware conversations like this that ignore total cost of ownership, vendor politics and such. Everyone is buying the tool that does the job, or building that tool if they want to make that large investment...
- llm_trw 2y agoThere's a difference in cost per flop at home and in a data center. I'm updating my wiring and air conditioning for a 7x5090 workstation because having that power for experiments under the desk is worth the cost (and fire hazard). If I had to build 10,000 of those I'd be banned by NVidia from ever buying their hardware again.
- maayank 2y agoWhat are you doing with the workstation that it’s worth the cost?
- llm_trw 2y agoHigh dimensional computations for time series data in finance.
- maayank 2y agoPrivate algotrading? Nice. May the odds be always at your favor!
- DeathArrow 2y agoIf I'd have those GPUs, I'd use them to run some AI models locally. But since I am not rich and I don't make money from that, I won't buy those GPUs.
- ahoka 2y agoAnd it usually ends with some weird implied conclusion, like “AMD-Intel duopoly bad, Apple monopoly good”.
- DeathArrow 2y agoI wonder what I would discover if I do some archeology and look at HN discussion when Apple used PowerPC CPUs.
- windexh8er 2y agoConsidering HN started in 2007 I don't think your expedition will yield a ton from the heyday of Mac PowerPC. Apple shipped the last PowerPC hardware in 2006.
- DeathArrow 2y agoTo me it seems some people developed some highly political or even religious views on tech. Truth doesn't matter as much as it used to. It's more of "I like the idea behind X, I think X is cool so X should be the best thing ever".
- DeathArrow 2y agoIf you consider Geekbench a good benchmark...
- hulitu 2y agoIt is a start. A wrong one, but still a start. /s