Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max

Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max by anuragsoni on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:18PM (#30095779)

Knowing intel and PC manufacturers you most likely won't find this CPU in a laptop without a dedicated GPU. I gave up the last time I was looking for a new laptop (I ended up with a MacBook Air), but it was surprisingly hard to find a laptop that had a beefy CPU but no discrete GPU. Lenovo had a couple of think pads that had some offerings but they would make you jump to the intel CPU with vPRO and that would come with a huge price increase.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max by p1necone on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @10:21PM (#30095800)

Yeah - I think it's a question of what the different target markets are willing to pay.

A lot of people want gaming laptops, so systems with big GPUs and big CPUs and not so great size/weight/battery life can be had relatively cheap.

But most people that want big CPUs and good battery life but don't care about the GPU so much are people who need the system for their job, so manufacturers can get away with pricing those systems higher.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max by 8192kjshad09- on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:53PM (#30096368)

Out of curiosity what jobs need a good CPU but also can't take advantage of a good GPU?

It seems like most of the high performance numerical computing software today is GPU-accelerated. If performance for your job is super important, why isn't your software GPU-accelerated?

I might just be naive but it's honestly hard for me to imagine why anybody would need a good CPU and not also want a good GPU.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max by mbarbar on Thursday January 27, 2022 @06:10AM (#30098995)

I work on static analysis (points-to analysis) that does not use any GPU at all and is mostly single threaded.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max by katbyte on Thursday January 27, 2022 @01:29AM (#30096935)

Static code analysis on 100s of mb of code. Pins my m1max for 3min, my 2015 for 15-20ish.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max by imwillofficial on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:16AM (#30096504)

Because here in the real world software isn’t GPU optimized in many cases.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max by wmf on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:27AM (#30096581)

Since this is HN... compiling.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max by 8192kjshad09- on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:40AM (#30096632)

Good point, not sure how I didn't see that, I'm a software engineer too.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max by invalidname on Thursday January 27, 2022 @01:07AM (#30096797)

Compiling is IO/RAM bound. CPU has impact but not much for most cases.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max by jcelerier on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:06AM (#30098044)

Nah, I only see minimal difference when building on a ram disk (source tree copied there too) compared to a nvme SSD.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Alder Lake Core i9 processor is faster than the M1 Max by olliej on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:30AM (#30098221)

You clearly aren't writing c++ :D

[ Parent | on HN ]