Man, if the process of ENTERING uncharted territory is taking this long, I'm scared to see how long the uncharted territory itself will last
Imagine, if you will, a new game of Civilization being started. Charted territory would be what your lone starting Settler unit can see. Uncharted would be...
sweeping arm gesture to the side
(now if only the powers that be enter that "Just one more turn" mindset...)
So the Phawk did benchmarks comparisons between Van Gogh, the AMD Ryzen 6800U, and the AMD Ryzen 7840U.
And basically, Van Gogh outperforms the AMD Ryzen 6800U and the AMD Ryzen 7840U at TDPs ≤11 W. And the AMD Ryzen 6800U and the AMD Ryzen 7840U outperforms Van Gogh at TDPs >11 W.
So assuming the AMD Z1 Extreme is based on the AMD Ryzen 7840U, then the AMD Z1 Extreme doesn't seem like the best choice for hybrid consoles running on an OS that's not Microsoft Windows, at least to me.
My kneejerk reaction:
Hmm, more evidence suggesting things about the v/f curves of the recent Zen architectures. I've heard before that Zen 2 actually does better at lower clocks than Zen 3 in laptop discussions. Since Zen 3 does outperform eventually, I take it that Zen 3's design (on the same node as 2, remember) ended up shifting the v/f curve enough to play out that way. Which does make sense; Zen 3 largely added stuff here and there to get a big IPC increase, with no noticeable cutbacks.
As for the GPU, that gets me wondering: does the scheduler automatically evenly distribute work across all the CUs? Because I'm picturing the lower power scenarios being ones where the 6800U's 12 RDNA2 CUs are still in the not-rolling-yet part of their v/f curves while Van Gogh's 8 RDNA2 CUs are somewhere in that nice bend/elbow/whatever sweet spot on the curve.
RDNA3's underperforming relative to expectations, but what else is new.
Subsequent thought:
Combined with what Thraktor has mentioned before about v/f curves shifting with nodes, it really does seem like to truly optimize for maximum performance within specific power ranges, one does need to keep a tight leash on size. And be careful with selection of architecture.
(also, my belief in Atom being the future of low power x86 based handheld PCs remains
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