Single-core performance of Intel's Sunny Cove chips Surface - Shows Big IPC Increase
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Fox2232
cryohellinc
Any shrink provides efficiency and performance gains. Intel has achieved a lot with their 14nm process, and I'm certain that 10nm and 7nm will provide great increases.
However, the main question here is - WHEN and at what price.
Undying
Intel must show something to slow down the zen2 hype. Release date and pricing unknown. Hah, most of us will already rock a ryzen cpus until these see the light of day.
Andrew LB
Exodite
While Hilbert already pointed out the need for salt it's probably important to drive home just how much is needed;
CPU-Z isn't a reliable benchmark. Even if these numbers ended up being correct it may not amount to anything.
At face value this puts Sunny Cove at a 44% higher IPC, compared to Coffe Lake refresh. That's not just similar to AMDs uplift going from Bulldozer to Zen, it's directly contradicting Intel's own (likely optimistic) claims.
I have no doubt Intel will have an answer to Zen 2 but I doubt it'll be as early as next year, and frankly I'd be very surprised to see another 40+% IPC uplift over a single generation on either x86 architecture. Aside from very narrow applications obviously, like another doubling of AVX throughput or dedicated instructions for en/decoding etc.
Fox2232
BLEH!
Will believe numbers with real reviews, not until. AMD will be cheaper, and therefore more likely to get my money.
anticupidon
Let's wait and see real benchmarks, until that time everything is just talk.
Fox2232
Undying
I say let the turing refresh come. Let the amd release navi 20. Let the intel compete with zen2.
That will all benefit us so lets be happy instead arguing.
Luc
I remember, maybe I'm wrong, that 40% improvement will happen on AI related workloads.
18% it's the best score it will achieve in usual workloads, but still impressive performance uplift.
It will came first to mobile chips, close to Zen 2 APU, and it will be great, because we'll have better CPUs and integrated GPUs around, if vendors offer good quality AMD laptops and Intel don't play dirt, as it does whenever is on trouble.
Then, SunnyCove will come glued to servers, and later to desktop, I think 🙄
fantaskarsef
Petr V
AlmondMan
Silva
Although I'm not convinced about these leaks, healthy competition is always good for consumers.
Intel has been lazy for too long, they will have to spit something decent eventually.
Fox2232
Alessio1989
The same CPU-Z that changed its benchmark implementation because Zen was to good at it? no thank you, I do not care about it. The only synthetic benchmarks I care are AIDA64 tests since they optimize then as much as possible for every uArch.
Denial
fantaskarsef
Astyanax