Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a barn burner

Re:Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a ... by gpderetta on Thursday November 04, 2021 @02:56PM (#29111115)

For those that do not care just about the faster CPUs on benchmark and tribal fights, and like instead to nerd out about architectures, it is still interesting to know whether Apple superiority is due the ARM architecture, the Apple microarchitecture improvements or TSMC process.

It is likely a mix of all three and of course microarchitecture cant be easily disentangled from the process.

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Re:Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a ... by noizejoy on Thursday November 04, 2021 @07:22PM (#29113666)

Unfortunately I’ve seldom seen discussions framed in that architectural curiosity context.

The drowning out discussion noise seems to be much more of the macho-tribal variety of shallow assumptions and absolutist conclusions.

And that’s really too bad, because I do really enjoy conversations framed in honest wondering and non-biased estimation of the future potential of various architectures.

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Re:Intel’s Alder Lake big.little CPU design, tested: it’s a ... by sroussey on Thursday November 04, 2021 @04:49PM (#29112385)

There are relatively large differences in performance between implementations of ARM X1, so yeah, there is more to it than microarchitecture.

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