[HN Gopher] Intel's Gracemont Small Core Eclipses Last-Gen Big C...
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       Intel's Gracemont Small Core Eclipses Last-Gen Big Core Performance
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2021-08-21 11:57 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | kcb wrote:
       | Sorry for the meta comment, but that yellow horizontal line is
       | hilarious.
        
       | touisteur wrote:
       | What am I missing? What is the 'small' / 'big' core distinction ?
       | No avx512 (but still vnni?) ? Low number of floating point units?
       | No vectorized fp, but all-in on integer units?
       | 
       | Is it a pentium m/core save out of the pentium 4 moment? Is there
       | a plan to put more of those small cores together? I mean I'd be
       | pretty interested in a 256 core machine with 'only' skylake per-
       | core performance...
        
         | websg-x wrote:
         | it small in size,around 1/4 the size of big "Golden Cove" core.
         | Gracemont is a big architecture enhancement over Tremont Core,
         | which is nurtured by the legendary Jim Keller. No avx512, but
         | not skimpy in floating point.
         | 
         | The rumor is that Intel "Sierra Forest" will contain huge
         | amount of small cores.
        
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