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I think saying 8 A57 cores at 2ghz is anything close to x86 at 3.5+ghz on 4 cores. Clock for clock, pipe for pipe (15 stages in A57, 14-19 in Haswell) x86 stil

by zanny 13y ago

I think saying 8 A57 cores at 2ghz is anything close to x86 at 3.5+ghz on 4 cores. Clock for clock, pipe for pipe (15 stages in A57, 14-19 in Haswell) x86 still wins because of per-instruction operand volume. Though i wonder how well this chip would perform at 50w. Double the watts, maybe another 1.5ghz, might be viable for a cheap htpc.

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elwin 13y ago
> Though i wonder how well this chip would perform at 50w. Double the watts, maybe another 1.5ghz, might be viable for a cheap htpc. As a general rule, power varies with the cube of frequency. 50W will only get about 2.5 GHz.