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Intel's Alder Lake big.LITTLE CPU design, tested: It's a barn burner:
After spending several days with Intel's newest consumer CPU designs, we have some surprising news: they're faster than AMD's latest Ryzens on both single-threaded and most multithreaded benchmarks.
We suspect this will be especially surprising to some, since Intel's newest desktop CPUs feature a hybrid "big.little[sic]" design similar to those found in ARM CPUs. AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 5950x is a traditional 16 core, 32 thread design, with all cores being "big" high-performance types with symmetric multithreading (SMT, also known as "hyperthreading"). By contrast, the i9-12900K offers 16 cores and only 24 threads—with eight "performance" cores featuring SMT and eight lower-performance "efficiency" cores with no SMT.
As pointed out in the Ars Technica comments, the Cinebench multi-threaded benchmark saw Intel's best CPU with a less than 2.5% lead, but the caption reads "Intel trounces AMD". While the Passmark multi-threaded benchmark saw AMD's best CPU with a more than 18% lead, but the caption reads "outperform i9-12900k-but even here, by a much, much, lower margin than we're accustomed to seeing".
Also at Phoronix, AnandTech, and Tom's Hardware.
See also: More Linux Performance Benchmark Data For Alder Lake, Comparison Data Points
Intel UHD Graphics 770 / Alder Lake GT1 Linux Graphics Performance
Previously: Intel Alder Lake CPUs Launch November 4th, with Up to 8 Big and 8 Small Cores
(Score: 2, Insightful) by tangomargarine on Friday November 05 2021, @12:04AM (8 children)
Because *Intel* is the company I go to get witty brand names... <facepalm>
I'm literally trying to think of a company that I associate *less* with pop culture than a 60s manufacturer of mainframes, and x86, that 70s chip that is still being produced because it happened to be cheaper at the time. Are there any buggy whip manufacturers still in business?
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday November 05 2021, @12:07AM
starring Topher Graphics as Bitcoin Q. Farmer
it works because "Farmer" is a real last name, right? right???
shut up, it was a great joke
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday November 05 2021, @12:08AM (5 children)
I don't think Intel is using "big.LITTLE" terminology. Others are because it's been around for so long and is practically generic. Even Arm is calling it "Arm DynamIQ" instead of big.LITTLE.
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday November 05 2021, @12:12AM (4 children)
Ah...after 5 seconds of googling it appears that it was an ARM invention. That makes more sense.
And even ARM is embarrassed of the name now haha
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday November 05 2021, @12:14AM (2 children)
Intel's got what you want: Pee-cores and eCores.
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday November 05 2021, @12:17AM
Why do I suspect that the "e" is like neither "email" nor "e(nvironmental) solutions"...
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(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Friday November 05 2021, @10:16AM
Lemme guess. Liquid cooled?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 05 2021, @04:09AM
big.LITTLE and DynamIQ are not the same thing. They are both heterogeneous computing architectures and have some similarities, but they are not identical nor are they compatible. I think another reason they switched is because they got the heterogeneous computing mind share of most people first and "big.LITTLE" is starting to suffer from trademark erosion due to the "Kleenex" problem of being used generically.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday November 05 2021, @03:35AM
Oh yeah, this is totally offtopic. Not like I'm literally talking about the title of the post or anything.
Bunch of hosers, take off eh
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