• @[email protected]
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    1062 years ago

    I wish all the computer parts companies would only release new products when they are definitively better rather than making them on a schedule no matter what. I don’t want to buy this year’s 1080p gaming CPU and GPU combo for more than I spent for the last one with the same capabilities, I want the next series of the same part to be capable of more damn it.

    • downhomechunk
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      142 years ago

      Think of the quarterly profits, won’t someone please think of the shareholders?!?

      /s

        • @[email protected]
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          62 years ago

          That’s what happens when some in society are able to “print” as much money as they damn well please and the rest of us have to work for it …

        • Ultragramps
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          112 years ago

          Lifeboat/Life jacket inflation is pretty much always good. Airbags cause harm going off early.
          Then for deflation, a person’s ego can be deflated for good reasons, maybe.

          • TimeSquirrel
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            Unless you inflated it while still onboard the sinking aircraft.

  • @[email protected]
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    332 years ago

    The article mentions the results are probably because of Intel’s focus on AI, but it’s more likely that this was because of Intel’s focus on making their chips use less power. Laptops with the new generation have a significantly better battery life.

    • @[email protected]
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      112 years ago

      wasn’t Intel the one which raised the bar of TDP on laptop CPUs in the first place? so they could win in CPU benchmarks

  • @[email protected]
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    652 years ago

    How’s the performance per watt?

    Oh wait. Nevermind, Intel sucks anyway. If it’s not performance issues, it’s hardware exploits. Not to mention Intel’s support for genocide in Gaza.

    • De Lancre
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      172 years ago

      Remember guys: killing jews - normal, killing terrorists - genocide.

      • من البحر إلى النهر
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        262 years ago

        70% of the murdered are women and children, this is if you assume all Palestinian men are terrorists with no right to defend themselves or exist on their land.

        “All Natives Resist Colonialists” – Zeev Jabotinsky

      • @[email protected]
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        82 years ago

        There’re entire farms of hungry animals with that strawman argument. No one is saying that.

      • @[email protected]
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        842 years ago

        Why does it have to be one or the other? Killing Jews = bad. Killing innocent Palestinians = bad.

        • ඞmir
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          32 years ago

          Why did you only add the innocent qualifier to the latter part?

          • @[email protected]
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            142 years ago

            To differentiate between civilians and Hamas combatants to hopefully avoid “whataboutisms” from people who try to pick apart any innocuous statement on the Internet.

            • ඞmir
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              22 years ago

              Hamas combatants were not so long ago normal people, pushed out of their homes by foreign settlers and then have their entire families turned to glass for peacefully protesting. This is not a “both sides have valid arguments” matter.

  • @[email protected]
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    262 years ago

    On a technical level, it’s hard to say why Meteor Lake has regressed in this test, but the CPU’s performance characteristics elsewhere imply that Intel simply might not have cared as much about IPC. Meteor Lake is primarily designed to excel in AI applications and comes with the company’s most powerful integrated graphics yet. It also features Foveros technology and multiple tiles manufactured on different processes. So while Intel doesn’t beat AMD or Apple with Meteor Lake in IPC measurements, there’s a lot more going on under the hood.

    • @[email protected]
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      202 years ago

      comes with the company’s most powerful integrated graphics yet.

      Not a particularly high bar there…

  • @[email protected]
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    ITT: non devs that think multithreading is still difficult.

    It’s become so trivial in many frameworks/languages nowadays, its starting to actually shifting towards single threading being something you have to do intentionally.

    Everything is async by default first class and you have to go out of your way to unparallelize it.

    It’s being awhile since I have seen anything mainstream that seriously cared about single thread performance enough to make it the most important benchmark.

    I care about TDP way more. Your single thread performance doesn’t mean shit if your cpu starts to thermal throttle.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 years ago

      as a dev, seeing you conflate “async” with “multithreaded” is painful.

      And what you’re saying is just not true anyway.

    • @[email protected]
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      52 years ago

      I’m a software engineer. And yes multithreading is difficult, just slapping on async isn’t necessarily going to help you run code in parallel

      Think about the workload a game is using, you have to do most calcs on a frame by frame basis and you tend to want effects to apply in order. So you have a hard time running in parallel as the state for frame 1 needs to be calculated before frame 2. And within frame 1 any number of scripts can rely on the results of another, so you can’t just throw threads at the problem You can do some things like the sound system but beyond that it’s not trivial

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      Async features in almost all popular languages are a single thread running an event loop (Go being an exception there I believe). Multi threading is still quite difficult to get right if the task isn’t trivially parallelizable.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 years ago

        A lot of languages have an asunc/await facade for tasks run on a background thread for result (c#, clj, py, etc), but it’s certainly not the default anywhere, and go most goroutines(?)/other csp implementations are probably going to be yielding for some io most of the time at the bottom anyway

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          Yes I’m mostly familiar with this in Kotlin. Sometimes this is kinda a footgun because you’re writing multi threaded code without explicitly doing so.

      • mihies
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        Wait, wat? Looking at first sentence. Also async != multi threading.

      • Gnome Kat
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        32 years ago

        My goto for easy multi threading is lock free queues. Generate work on one thread and queue it up for another thread to process. Easy message passing and stuff like that. It doesn’t solve everything but it can do a lot if you are creative with them. As long as you maintain a single thread ownership of memory and just pass it around the threads via message passing on queues, everything just sorta works out.

      • @[email protected]
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        92 years ago

        Exactly.

        Also every time I’ve used async stuff, I’ve pined for proper threads. Continuation spaghetti isn’t my bag.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          Which language? Usually there’s a thread pool where multiple tasks are run in parallel. CPython is a special case due to gil, but we have pypy which has actual parallelism

          • @[email protected]
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            I’ve only ever used it in those lua microcontrollers and in Rust with the async keyword.

            In lua I doubt they use proper threading due to the GIL. Rust probably can do async with threads, but it just wasn’t fun to work with.

            • @[email protected]
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              12 years ago

              Tokio has support for multiple threaded async in rust. As for micro controller, I don’t think you can have multiple threads in flight anyways, so that’s the best you’ll get

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        But concurrent execution is multithreaded. “unparallelize” is the only misnomer in the comment you replied to. Asynchronous execution is not necessarily concurrent, but often is.

        However, a high TDP does not inherently mean that thermal throttling will occur, and there are countless everyday processes that are inherently sequential (“single-threaded”), so I still disagree with the comment on most counts.

  • Justin
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    152 years ago

    I wonder if these have increased ram latency due to the chiplet design. These are the first mobile chiplet I’ve seen, aside from desktop-replacements using am4/am5 ryzens.

    Hopefully Anandtech will have more detailed look whenever they ever get their hands on a sample.