Re:Intel Brings a Big Fork to a Server CPU Knife Fight
by marginalia_nu on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @07:11AM
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CPUs have had an enormous performance boost over the last few years and I do indeed think it's happened without many realizing.
For a big part of the 2010s CPUs were kind of stagnant since Intel didn't really have much competition and was happy resting on their laurels and dropping slow incremental upgrades (like a 2012 CPU and a 2016 CPU were basically the same), and AMD were floundering and playing catch up, but when they did catch up and really blow past Intel, it really lit a fire under Intel's ass and now there's real competition for x86 CPUs again.
I think it's a pretty favorable description of cloud providers that they will sell you 2015 performance for 2024 dollars.
Re:Intel Brings a Big Fork to a Server CPU Knife Fight
by rbanffy on Wednesday June 05, 2024 @04:27PM
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It’s quite incredible how the cores themselves got faster - I was betting on that stagnation and core count increases, but, it seems, they have managed to delay that point for a very long time, and with no wall in sight for now.
Having said that, making software more parallel is still a good investment.
we can't notice of coure due to how software is these days. your average desktop CPU might have 8Cores / 16 threads.
if you rent a dedicated machine n skip the 'cloud sharing' your average web app -- won't be able to exhaust a single machine with 128GB Ram to 2TB Ram and 64 core CPU. Now we're talking about 288 Cores with the Intel Efficient CPU's.