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by adfgadfgaery 5y ago
>The pro-AMD anti-Intel commentary on the internet got completely out of control for a while. Not really. It was entirely justified, but things have changed. Prior to Alder Lake Intel really was just plain worse than AMD in most respects
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by adfgadfgaery 5y ago
It doesn't make much sense to me. The M1 is designed to have memory in the same package as the processor. This leads to reduced latency and increased bandwidth. Moving to off-package memory might totally destroy its performance, and th
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by adfgadfgaery 5y ago
This line is nonsense and you can safely ignore it. There have been multi-chip-modules that act like a single socket for many years. In particular, pretty much every current AMD CPU works that way. I guarantee you that for the M1 Ultra, jus
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by adfgadfgaery 5y ago
The M1 Ultra is by a very wide margin the bigger of the two. According to Tom's Hardware [1], top-of-the-line Epycs have 39.54 billion transistors. That is about a third of the 117 billion in the M1 Ultra. Apple builds bigger than anyo
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by adfgadfgaery 5y ago
Yes, certainly. I don't think that's relevant in this case, though. Why would anyone care if their workstation CPU draws 60W or 200W? It's easy to cool in either case and the power consumption is trivial. M1 is clearly the be
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by adfgadfgaery 5y ago
That line is blatantly dishonest, but not for the reasons you pointed out. While the i9-12900K is a 16-core processor, it uses Intel's version of big.LITTLE. Eight of its 16 cores are relatively low performance 'E' cores. Thi
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by adfgadfgaery 5y ago
Ice Lake shipped in 2019. The current generation is Alder Lake, which is slightly ahead of the M1 in single-threaded performance according to most benchmarks.
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by adfgadfgaery 5y ago
AMD is currently shipping high-end CPUs built with up to nine dies. Their ordinary desktop parts have up to three. They are not built with "cache in-between". There is one special I/O die but it does not contain any cache. Ea
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by adfgadfgaery 5y ago
No one I know likes wearing a seatbelt.
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by adfgadfgaery 5y ago
>But the overwhelming majority of owners think it's great. I don't care at all what the overwhelming majority of owners think. Maybe 95% of customers are happy to have saved a few hours in a dealership, but when the 5% are with
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by adfgadfgaery 5y ago
Tesla's no-dealership model has been an unmitigated disaster. I have never heard of any other company making people wait months for repairs, nor have I heard of any other company repeatedly making delivery estimates that are wrong by m