Question Zen 6 Speculation Thread

[soresu]

and even by then who knows what those Cambridge folks cook up to counter it

Cambridge as in ARM in general or the Cambridge CPU design team?

Because the latter aint done much worth writing home about since A53 going by lackluster showings of A5xx µArch lineage, including C1 Nano which is poor as hell for the timespan since A510.

It would be interesting if ARM went down the road of pursuing these slice out of order µArch's for future Cx Nano IP, though I strongly doubt that will happen.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Anyway while doing this my CPU load is about 70% while the GPU is about 90%. Thing is the 9950X still isn't tapped out for cores. I know this is anecdotal because I'm looking at one of my use cases, but what I really need is more ST performance, not moar cores. Same thing when I'm running Studio One.

That's perfectly normal. 16c is already overkill for most users. It's up to you to figure out what (if anything) to do with all that extra compute capacity.

Moving the halo desktop product from 16c->24c let's them shift 16c SKUs to lower price tiers (maybe, and that doesn't mean 16c is necessarily going to be cheaper) and lets them increase the price target for their new halo product. 16 P cores is already more than enough for a significant number of power users.

 

[gdansk]

maybe

They may kill 16c SKUs. Too choppy.

 

[DrMrLordX]

They may kill 16c SKUs. Too choppy.

Maybe? It wouldn't be a huge loss (per se), but it does make the argument for dual CCD SKUs a little weird when you can get 12c on one CCD.