AMD big/little irritates me

[Sarra]

I completely understand the premise of this. My phone has big/little cores. I actually like that.

 

But that's a mobile device.

 

In a gaming battlestation, I don't want big/little. I want monster/moar monster cores. in a rig that games AND renders, I want LOTS of monster/moar monster cores.

 

I personally looked down hard on Intel for announcing this, in what, Rocket Lake? I don't care if AMD is 'doing it better', or using 3nm, or whatever. I still hate it. I'm going to feel 100% of the time like I bought a CPU that is half useful, half  not useful, especially when doing a video export, even if it's faster than what I had before.

 

Don't get me wrong, if I was looking at a laptop for multi-use (netflix on the go, gaming at home), I would love this (as long as it isn't Intel's inevitable 10nm+++ or 14nm+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++), but I just... Don't know if I could get into it on a non-mobile device. Idle power is absolutely not a concern of mine, hell, my old Xeon rig runs mining when it's cool enough for the central heating to be on in the house.

 

Maybe if it was an instance where they took an existing setup and just added to it... I could see myself using a 32 big/8 small type setup, but... Dang. I just don't see myself liking this in the future. Efficiency is great, but when it makes my render time go up on a really expensive CPU, it's not worth the tradeoff.

[Kilrah]

Suppositions so far are that it'll be mostly for laptop parts, no doubt there will be desktop parts that either don't use that arrangement, or do but without it making them less competitive for high performance tasks.