Re:Ampere Altra 80-core ARM CPU
by endorphone on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @06:43PM
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"Really Intel and AMD are being dishonest by publishing benchmarks that don't match reality"
People can discard with the various SPEC* benchmarks as unrealistic -- they generally are -- but this is a bridge way too far.
The whole point of the SPEC* benchmarks is that you bring out the best of the best and do everything you can to achieve the pinnacle of performance.
And those SPEC* benchmarks are most interesting, and most applicable, to HPC users, who actually do use hardware-specific compilers. Of course another person mentioned that "everything is on GPUs now" (it isn't): If it's on a GPU, then you don't need a 60 core CPU. If it's on a GPU, then SPEC* benchmarks aren't relevant.
People can discard with the various SPEC* benchmarks as unrealistic -- they generally are -- but this is a bridge way too far.
The whole point of the SPEC* benchmarks is that you bring out the best of the best and do everything you can to achieve the pinnacle of performance.
And those SPEC* benchmarks are most interesting, and most applicable, to HPC users, who actually do use hardware-specific compilers. Of course another person mentioned that "everything is on GPUs now" (it isn't): If it's on a GPU, then you don't need a 60 core CPU. If it's on a GPU, then SPEC* benchmarks aren't relevant.