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As games become ever more multithreaded, Intel's hybrid CPU design might start to lag behind AMD's simpler but more effective architecture (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Absolutely. Strix Point is great but it's just a monolithic chip, no chiplets are used. Intel's Meteor Lake and Arrow Lake use all kinds of different chiplets called tiles, separate ones for compute, GPU, SoC (with RAM controllers, display driver and a few ultra low power E cores so that compute tiles can be completely switched off at idle) and IO tiles. Different tiles are produced on different node sizes to optimize for cost and performance as needed.

On paper they're very impressive designs, but it hasn't translated to chips that are actually faster or more efficient than AMD's offerings. I'd always choose AMD for a laptop currently, so even with all that impressive tech Intel is still lagging behind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Oh wow, I didn't realize strix was monolithic. I just assumed it was multi die due to the Zen5c cores.