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Re:Rust for Windows by caycep on Thursday January 21, 2021 @04:33PM (#25864577)
This is simply a matter of adding more cores...I mean, I would hope the 5950x with its 16 full strength cores would be better than an M1 with it's big/little design...
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Re:Rust for Windows by phendrenad2 on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:10PM (#25866528)
I don't think it's as simple as adding more cores. Maybe the M1 doesn't scale up nicely.
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Re:Rust for Windows by SekstiNi on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:38PM (#25867632)
Looking at the die shot [1], they have plenty of space for cores and cache if they remove the GPU. Surely it's not that simple, but I believe they should be able scale to at least 8+4 cores without large interconnect changes, and at that point they are already knocking on the 5900X's door.

[1] - https://images.anandtech.com/doci/16226/M1.png

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Re:Rust for Windows by NewLogic on Friday January 22, 2021 @03:34AM (#25869653)
I would suspect by the time that product releases, AMD will be allowed some 5nm fab capacity for a future Zen product release.
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Re:Rust for Windows by MBCook on Thursday January 21, 2021 @08:07PM (#25866951)
We’ll find out this year.
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