My Opinion on Intel vs. AMD

[whm1974]

I do not think Apples cores are better suited for x86 emulation than Kryo outside of being faster due to the wider architecture. Regarding "adding something" it would help if the L1 instruction caches would be coherent to the L1 data caches. Not sure if such a change is allowed within the boundaries of ARMv8 though.

Yeah I think for x86 emulation to be done properly and with usable performance will require much more powerful CPUs then what is available now.

 

[Thala]

Yeah I think for x86 emulation to be done properly and with usable performance will require much more powerful CPUs then what is available now.

That is not what i did want to imply. I think Cortex A72/73 and Kryo level performance is just find with x86 emulation for a wide range of apps. Keep in mind that only the application code is emulated, system level dlls, kernel and drivers are all native ARM. In fact i would not be surprised if for some games Snapdragon 835 just outperforms Atom even under emulation when we are in GPU bound situations.

 

[whm1974]

Atom is probably that easiest x86 CPU to outperform, I'm aiming higher.

 

[railroadmaster]

Intel doesn't care about AMD, ZEN/RYZEN doesn't change this fact. No amount of Internet fanboyism will change this fact. Appreciate both companies for what they have to offer.