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How did AMD Ryzen get 50% faster in two years?

487 points · 206 comments · ibobev

  1. whatever1 · · focus · HN ↗
    Single core performance still worse than an iPhone.

    The x86 folks lost the ball completely. For workstation/ mobile needs you go to arm. For matmul at scale you go to gpus.

    I guess windows gaming with separate gpu is the only remaining market for them.

    Unless Nvidia releases a motherboard with an arm cpu on top of their RTX cards, and then that market is gone too.

    1. chlorion · · focus · HN ↗
      The IPhone runs on a battery, with no active cooling.

      There is no chance the sustained single core perf is better than a 150=200+w ryzen with a big noctua cooler on it. The power draw alone would kill the battery in a few minutes(?), and the heat would make it catch fire. lol

      1. trombuance · · focus · HN ↗

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