[The Exiled]

Autor MadBoY

Te "male" jezgre na Alder Lake procesoru bi navodno trebale imati IPC jednak kao i Skylake jezgre. Ali ih neće moći nasvirati na 5 GHz, tako da neće biti previše koristi od njih za gaming, a ni za multi thread.

Tako je, a i bolje/lakše im je složiti osam tih manjih jezgri, nego npr. još dvije ili četiri dodatne veće, jer onda su opet na 10C/20T ili samo 12C/24T modelu, a ovak fino mogu reći da imaju 16C kao i AMD.

Sve što Intel radi i plasira u eter od 2017., pa do danas, a i vrlo vjerojatno nadalje, neodoljivo podsjeća na razvoj situacije otprije skoro 20 godina (1 - 2).

Starting in 2001, the threat from competition became salient at Intel. Intel’s biggest CPU competitor, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (“AMD”), had begun developing x86 chips that not only competed with Intel’s offerings, but were in many ways more desirable. Business customers and consumers increasingly sought AMD-based computers. OEMs began to comply. In response, Intel launched an illegal campaign to deprive AMD of distribution channels and consumers of product choice and lower prices. In order to achieve exclusivity or severe limitations on an OEM’s purchase and offering of AMD products, Intel paid hundreds of millions – in some cases billions – of dollars in “rebates.” At the same time, Intel threatened OEMs with retaliation if they persisted in dealing with AMD. For example, in exchange for billions of dollars in rebate payments and other benefits, Dell agreed not to sell any AMD products from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Intel reached an agreement with HP – subsequently extended to 2004 – which, in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars, capped HP’s sales of AMD-based business desktop PCs at 5%, guaranteeing Intel 95%. Intel also exacted agreements from HP limiting the ways in which HP could distribute AMD’s products, thereby inhibiting AMD’s ability to reach even the 5% mark.

I onda 15 godina kasnije imamo copy-paste repertoar:

• Intel says AMD EPYC processors "Glued-together" in official slide deck
  
  
• Intel Performance Strategy team publishing intentionally misleading benchmarks
  
  
• Intel is suddenly very concerned with ‘Real-World’ benchmarking
  
  
• Intel reportedly reserved $ 3 billion in 2019 to competitively block AMD
  
  
• Rasprava i komentari o "Spectre" i "Meltdown" pošastima
  
  
• Intel tried to bribe Dutch University to suppress knowledge of MDS vulnerability
  
  
• AnandTech: Our Interesting Call with CTS-Labs

Tako da kad Alder Lake stigne na tržište, gospoda Ryan Shrout (1 - 2) i Principled Technologies (1 - 2) odmah mogu izbaciti "real-world" rezultate testiranja u kojima Intel pobjeđuje sve što AMD nudi.

EDIT:

Rocket Lake Redux: 0x34 Microcode offers small performance gains on Core i7-11700K