Originally posted by TemplarGR
View Post
For real world -- the PlayStation 4 used a similar setup. ARM did the OS and standby mode while x86 did the games. Intel isn't a leading force here in regards to efficient paired with non-efficient. They're playing catch-up and they're limited in strategy since AMD holds the dual arch patents.
To set the record straight with you -- I think the Intel e-core stuff is pretty neat for portables, but as we go from portables to appliances to desktops to workstations to servers I see them as less and less useful than a something like a scheduler that artificially limits a few cores and just turns them into e-cores or a systemd service that takes the first 8 cores and switches them to powersave with a 1 to 2ghz limit "systemctl enable generic-ecores". I say that because AMD has the dual arch efficiency solution that could really rock some socks if they staff their Linux and software divisions right and because e-cores seem like a good way to use cores that aren't up to par, don't pass the tests to be high-powered cores (doesn't mean I don't think they can't be emulated with software and schedulers). Upcycle instead of destroy and rebuild is probably more cost effective and better for the environment in that the CPUs are more efficient nor do they take 3-4x the power to make (source, build, test, destroy, rebuild, test, repeat if necessary uses a lot of power).
I'm more of a fanboi in regards to AMD GPUs because they're the shit on Linux and AMD APUs because they contain AMD GPUs which are the shit on Linux. When it comes to CPUs I'm partial to Xeons...but they don't have integrated AMD GPUs. It's not my fault that up until very recently integrated Intel GPUs have sucked or that dedicated Intel GPUs are non-existent or that Intel tick-tocks their goddamn CPU sockets too. Things like that tend to sway a person to use the competition. I'm gonna have to give Intel a few years to see how their dGPUs are for us, if they offer stable CPU sockets like AMD does, if their iGPUs get better, and so forth to see where I decide to spend my money on my next system...but so far it's looking like some sort of AM5??? APU with DDR5 in two or three years with maybe a new APU in my current AM4 box just because I'd like to have the last AM4 APU...no real reason other than why not.
Comment