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Re:Graviton 3, Apple M2 and Qualcomm 8cx 3rd gen: a URL pars... by foobiekr on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @10:33PM (#35810582)
Your typical DSP beats your typical CPU on power and instructions/sec/dollar by a pretty wide margin.
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Re:Graviton 3, Apple M2 and Qualcomm 8cx 3rd gen: a URL pars... by gpderetta on Thursday May 04, 2023 @04:41AM (#35812760)
You have to measure effective (not theoretical peak) instructions on a specific workload.

DSPs will beat CPUs on DSP workloads, but, as expected, utterly fail for any general purpose workload.

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Re:Graviton 3, Apple M2 and Qualcomm 8cx 3rd gen: a URL pars... by foobiekr on Friday May 05, 2023 @12:25AM (#35825206)
Clearly so.
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