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CyberDildonicslast Tuesday at 11:05 PM2 repliesview on HN

"E-cores" are not the same


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bri3dlast Tuesday at 11:09 PM

The 32 core / die AMD products are almost certainly Zen 6c, which is the same "idea" as Intel E-Cores albeit way less crappy.

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/amd-zen-6-epyc-ve...

EDIT: actually, now that I think about it some more, my characterization of Zen-C cores as the same "idea" as Intel E-cores was pretty unfair too; they do serve the same market idea but the implementation is so much less silly that it's a bit daft to compare them. Intel E-Cores have different IPC, different tuning characteristics, and different feature support (ie, they are usually a different uarch) which makes them really annoying to deal with. Zen C cores are usually the same cores with less cache and sometimes fewer or narrower ports depending on the specific configuration.

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tester756last Tuesday at 11:16 PM

By what logic?

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