• breadsmasher@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    clock speed of 4GHz, which is far below AMD and Intel’s 5GHz.

    phrasing is odd. 25% lower clock speed isnt “far below”

    but also fuck nvidia

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        20 hours ago

        Yeah, we’ve been through this exact same game with multiple iterations of Intel and AMD chips. When AMD first started doing consumer CPUs they badged them according to their equivalent Intel clock speed because one to one comparisons were misleading.

        What’s the L1 and L2 cache? What are the bus speeds? How many cores and how are they architectured? Multi-threading? How many steps is the instruction cycle? There are so many factors beyond just clock speed that play into real world performance.

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        20 hours ago

        I can’t believe people still look at Hz and think it’s a sole metric that can be used for performance.

        Do you think they look at the 2005 Pentium 4’s 3.8GHz and assume it’s only slightly worse than what Nvidia will put on the market?

      • lacaio 🇧🇷🏴‍☠️🇸🇴@lemmy.eco.brOP
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        20 hours ago

        I’m hopeful ARM will follow more the licensing path than the going full Android path. I think stronger ARM computers, built at the ISA level by any company are also stronger RISCV computers. Builders like Rockchip (China) show that ARM and RISCV computers will bring alternatives to people, possibly with smaller fabs or on demand.

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          1 hour ago

          Truly open/libre systems will have to be RISCV. They don’t have to be the fastest.

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      16 hours ago

      You willing to take a 25% pay cut? Yeah that’s hella far. Especially when you’re up in the GHz range.

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      19 hours ago

      25% lower clock speed isnt “far below”

      AHEM! AKTCHEWALEE… it’s 20% which is even less qualified to be “far below” the other two.