Intel could be on the verge of bringing another major shift in its architectural design after going big.LITTLE hybrid route. The company is seemingly looking to Hyper-threading on the next-gen.

Task Manager of prototype Intel CPU shows Core and Logical processor count are the same at 8.

This is still a relatively low end chip if its just 8 cores and a 13500 has 6 + 8 = 14 total so this is maybe a laptop processor. Hyperthreading probably doesn’t make sense anymore.

  • apt_install_coffee@lemmy.ml
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    9 months ago

    I am curious about why performance cores would go with a no-smt implementation; the die area improvements are obvious, but how are they going to spend that die area improvement to make up the performance gap?

    AVX only really affects a small subset of applications, so I can’t see that going too far.

    A better branch predictor could be a boon, but given how good they are already I’m not sure how they could make up the 50% multi threaded loss.

    Perhaps just cramming more physical cores together and a better cache sharing mechanism?