ARM Aims To Deliver Core i5 Like Performance At Less Than 5 Watts

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  • starshipeleven
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    Originally posted by RussianNeuroMancer View Post
    They can provide upstream open source Mali driver.
    You would still have no hardware acceleration for media, an d no support for embedded peripherals (like wifi or bluetooth on SD interface).

    That's cool but not game-changing imho.

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  • cj.wijtmans
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    CPUs are so good nowadays for the majority of people can run even run most of their games on 5 year old CPUs just fine. With an exception of AI heavy games.

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  • RussianNeuroMancer
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    Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post
    There isn't a lot that ARM can do in this regard even if they wanted to.
    They can provide upstream open source Mali driver.

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  • starshipeleven
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    Originally posted by c117152 View Post
    Would you buy one knowing your games, CAD and graphic design software isn't going to become available for years to come? Cause that's what people use i5s for. Otherwise, that fake "ultrabook" i5 is good enough once the WinTel tax is removed.
    I'd like to point out that until they make decently powerful processors, none will even remotely care about making "games, CAD and graphic design software" that run on it.

    I don't need a toy processor for internet browsing, regardless of how "free" it might be.

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  • c117152
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    Originally posted by starshipeleven View Post
    Hah, better than a fake "ultrabook" i5? How about better than an actual i5 you lazy bummers.
    Would you buy one knowing your games, CAD and graphic design software isn't going to become available for years to come? Cause that's what people use i5s for. Otherwise, that fake "ultrabook" i5 is good enough once the WinTel tax is removed.

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  • hajj_3
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    didn't arm say in 2015 that by 2020 they estimate that they will have a 20% server market share? Oh yeah they did.

    I suspect that arm is comparing intel's dual core processor with a 4 core cortex a76 not dual core. As a result it could match the multithreaded performance but would have half the single core performance.
    Last edited by hajj_3; 16 August 2018, 04:26 PM.

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  • gukin
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    When I saw i5 like performance I thought: "wow if they can match the i5 8250u that would be pretty impressive" However they specified the 7300U which is a two core non SMT processor. The 8250U is a four core SMT processor and it IS pretty impressive, as Michael has shown with his little Dell.

    Still it's good that ARM is at least trying to nip at the heels of AMD and Intel. Comparing my I5 8250U to my I7 73500U, the 8250U just smacks it down hard, the thing clocks up to 3.4GHz when only one or two threads are needed and settles at 2.4GHz when they're all at load.

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  • starshipeleven
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    Originally posted by RussianNeuroMancer View Post
    Hopefully they'll implement upstream support for ARM-based laptops, otherwise all of this is hardly useful.
    There isn't a lot that ARM can do in this regard even if they wanted to. They provide IP (schematics) to have CPU cores or other things but the final design is from someone else. In many cases the parts that matter aren't from ARM (like say the media acceleration hardware, or the drivers for touchscreens/gyroscopes/GPS/whatever else is on the board).

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  • starshipeleven
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    Hah, better than a fake "ultrabook" i5? How about better than an actual i5 you lazy bummers.

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  • wizard69
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    Originally posted by RussianNeuroMancer View Post
    Hopefully they'll implement upstream support for ARM-based laptops, otherwise all of this is hardly useful.
    Honestly i was really hoping that we would see a change in attitude with ARMs new ownership. Open sourced drivers are the one big reason i went with AMD in my last laptop buy. While the drivers have lagged a bit with respect to stability ((Ryzen mobile) i have what i believe is an excellent value for running Linux. Without strong Linux support (that means open drivers) i really dont see how ARM even has a chance in the laptop world or even with alternative Linux based tablets. Oh im speaking of Linux here, i have zero need for Googles Android spy ware. Outside of cell phones ARMs best chance for volume lies in Linux based hardware which is something you would think that would be understood at ARM.

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