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A comment on AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast. Parent comment

Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by adrian_b on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @02:50PM (#50445392)
The single-threaded results of the Apple cores are excellent, but the multi-threaded results per socket of a Zen 6 absolutely wipe out any Apple CPU.

The Apple CPUs may be great for a personal computer, but they are not competitive with a server CPU.

Moreover, the SPEC floating-point results are not really representative for the floating-point performance of Zen 5 and Zen 6 that can be reached with optimized AVX-512 programs, which is much greater.

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Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by hajile on Tuesday November 10, 2026 @10:17PM (#50449385)
Apple could absolutely make a server CPU using their E-cores that would wipe the floor with Zen6 in both perf and perf/watt. Apple isn't in the server hardware business though which would make it a pointless piece of engineering.
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Re:AMD's Zen 6 Family: Feeding the Beast by LtdJorge on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:43AM (#50450074)
Sure
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