Meyer Tech Rants

E-Cores are love. E-Cores are life.  As many of us know, Intel were the first to launch with a heterogenous x86 architecture. What this means is that there's more than just one type of core. Where every single core in a processor was designed identically, Alder Lake now has two types of cores (Similar to the big.LITTLE found in ARM-based mobile processors). The purpose of this is to maximize MultiThreaded (MT) performance for its die area. Intel's large cores (P-Cores) are extremely fast. However, they're also BIG. They take up a lot of die area, and adding more of them makes the chip bigger and more expensive to manufacture. The solution is add some small cores that aren't as fast, but are much faster relative to the space they take up.  In the above image, we can see the BIG dark blue cores. Those are the P-cores, and the small light-blue E-cores have 4 cores in about the same die area as the P-cores. In reality a cluster of 4 E-cores are slightly wider than a P-core ...

  RDNA2 may have a 1440p edge.  First of all, I need to stress that there’s a lot of speculation here. There’s also a lot of math, but I will be clear what data I’m using and which assumptions I’m making. To start things off, I’m going to outline a few caveats. 1)       I’m using Hardware Unboxed benchmarking data from the 3090 review, here: https://youtu.be/PTs1gHqvcjs Go watch it. It’s a great review and be sure to subscribe to their channel. I use their data because they present it in an easy to consume manner, and they have among the best testing methodology in the business. However, I also encourage you to use other benchmarks to help round out the picture and get other opinions. I’m also using these screenshots without permission, but I feel like they’d probably be fine with the way I’m using them. If they ask me to remove them I will. a.         b.         2)  ...

 Or will it be the 3080?  Okay, full disclosure, I could end up looking like a complete idiot here. I have no sources, and this comes from nothing other than my own observations. But Nvidia and the entirety of the tech press are blowing my mind.  Points for 30 series The entirety of the tech press from what I can see has accepted the conclusion that Ampere will be the 30 series of Geforce GPUs. This makes a lot of sense, since there was the 10 series, then there was the 20 series, now there's going to be the 30 series, right? It also sounds better. "Thirty Eithty" and "Thirty Ninety" sound a lot better than "twenty-one eithty" and "twenty-one ninety". There's also the fact of the Micron document that showed it being called the 30 series. That's an official document and couldn't be wrong, right? There are also cooler prototypes with the 30 series name written on them.  Img Src: Videocardz:  https://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2020/06/NVID...