My statement was more of general nature - less particularly pointing at Tremont - and one of the problems of Intel in general. The core area is increasing drastically - which collides with ability to double the core counts with a shrink on a similar die size.
I think thats the main reason why they try to combine cores with higher area efficiency with cores with lower area efficiency - at this point i am everything but convinced that this strategy will work against AMD.
Nope, we have benchmarks, where we already know, that Sunny Cove essentially is not participating (i guess this is even the normal case) - like a Cinebench R15 multi score of 250, 7zip multi 7200MIPS - very low values performance wise. But still this thing is drawing power like no tomorrow - compared to the performance anyway.
Doesn’t seem like it is drawing a ton of power to me, especially given the performance. People keep looking at that 50W peak and saying it is a power hog, but it only peaked at 50W briefly and it spent most of it’s time consuming significantly less power. IMO there is nothing wrong with that. Quite frankly, I am intrigued by the platform. It is the first *real* new thing Intel has put out in a long time.
The things that will determine how great it is include heat, battery life, and overall performance. OEMs are already reporting 15-20 hour battery life. We will see what the reviews say.
I am also curious as to what the yields on Intel’s 10SF process are.
An 8 core version of this with a 65W TDP would likely beat all of the current gen chips out there with the possible exception of the 3950X. Given how much power Intel’s current chips use, that is progress.
EDIT: I thought you were referring to Tiger Lake.
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