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Re:AMD's Mild Hybrid Strategy: Ryzen Z1 in Asus's ROG Ally by zozbot234 on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @05:19AM (#39356275)
> Therefore, for a CPU with many cores, like a server CPU, the highest IPC is not the best.

Depends on the workload. Some are inherently serial and cannot use many cores effectively, these will benefit from a bigger core w/ more IPC.

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Re:AMD's Mild Hybrid Strategy: Ryzen Z1 in Asus's ROG Ally by wtallis on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @11:47AM (#39359603)
Even among single-threaded tasks, some workloads offer high instruction level parallelism that can be exploited by a wide and slow core while others consist of long dependency chains that minimize instruction level parallelism and are better served by a more narrow core that can run at much higher clock speeds.
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