DShiznit wrote:
I don't know how important that is for most tasks, but I do know that processor was never meant to be used for any kind of serious work. It's a netbook/tablet processor for which the entire purpose is getting the user on the internet so they can they can look at ponies or whatever.
Out-of-order execution is important for pretty much ALL tasks.
TheStorm wrote:
Not to derail this thread but iirc doesn't AMD's "hyperthreading" equivalent use one integer pipeline per thread and then share a FPU between them? If that is correct then wouldn't it not be much of an improvement over a single thread per core for this sort of workload? Not to mention that the clock for clock efficiency of the BullDozer procs was poor even compared to their existing offerings, let alone Intel, according to what I was seeing. :/
I dunno, but the resonant clock mesh technology they've invested in for Piledriver seems to be unique in the x86 world, and the massive power savings are allowing them to push the clockspeed up past 4GHz, which we haven't seen in a long long time, while still being multicore.
Anyway, back to Legos.