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by PaulHoule
1127 days ago
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Apple switched to Apple Silicon precisely because Intel was dragging it's feet on acceleration and by doing so could fire customers like you. Seriously though, Intel has not been good at keeping all of its chips up to date with AVX and one consequence of that is that developers don't use it at all or they use a version that is 10 years out of date. If you look at those graphs in the article, single thread performance really is dying out there, the one thing Intel could offer to make their newer offering compelling is the latest version of AVX but they have been so hypnotized by smartphones that they just had to make a "big-little" clone that disable the most advanced AVX on the good cores so the weak cores not only waste your money, time and power, but actually sap performance from your strong cores. Customers buy AMD or Apple Silicon instead. Intel and their paid shills in the tech media will make as many excuses for this as AMZN will for why you can only get 5 day shipping with Prime, but all it means is 20 years from now some people will remember Intel the way we remember Sears or Atari or AMC. |
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Absolutely, absolutely, amen. I'm going to hunt for a good 12600 with AVX-512 because my BIOS has an option to force-enable it—but I have to find a CPU that doesn't have the AVX-512 fused off on a hardware level (despite it being on the silicon).