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Submission + - Does Apple's M5 Max Really "Destroy" a 96-Core Threadripper? (tomshardware.com)

Ecuador writes: Tom's Hardware currently has a front-page article making some wild claims about the 18-core Apple M5 Max versus a 96-core Ryzen Threadripper.

Reading the article, the comparison is based largely on Geekbench 6 multi-core scores. The author briefly mentions that Geekbench doesn't scale well, but doesn't really make clear just how bad the scaling actually is.

From my own experience doing cloud benchmarking for work, unlike previous versions, Geekbench 6 multi-core is essentially useless for large CPUs. Some of the suite's tests (including workloads that are normally very parallelizable) stop scaling beyond 4-8 cores, and the overall score can actually start dropping as you add more and more cores.

I wrote a more detailed breakdown of the issue last year.

Is this a new low for a major tech site, running sensational headlines based on such inappropriate benchmarking, or is this just the new normal?

Comment Not your standard server CPU... (Score 1) 40

Interesting, this does not seem to be the standard server CPU with Intel calling them "efficiency" cores. I wonder if they feel they have fallen behind the performance game to AMD and trying shift to "efficiency". Their Sapphire Rapids was disappointing, the next one Emerald Rapids was also not great (ok performance if you did not use all cores, which did not make a good solution for cloud providers), but Granite Rapids seemed to be a meaningful improvement - just AMD's Turin came out and was so much faster (I published a comparison of 44 VM families over 7 cloud providers recently and it's pretty consistent).

Comment Re:Over (Score 1) 157

Wow. You live in the past. Macs are now probably the best in both performance and performance/price. This is from someone who, despite having to work on them, would never spend any of their own money on a Mac before the M1 came out. I would still not suggest Apple hardware though for those who don't want to use MacOS.

But I am very puzzled about the summary talking about Linux not being ARM ready. I use ARM with Debian on the Cloud for most things as they are the most cost effective. That's the whole point of open source, everything builds fine. Are they using some sort of proprietary binaries for something? Because that's definitely not Linux's fault.

Comment Re:There's a correlational study like this every y (Score 1) 109

Same for alcohol. It does actually have some benefits. But in small doses. Not all day, every day, to excess.

Yeah, no, that's wrong. Even small doses are bad. What you are thinking of is probably wine which has some good properties - but you'd really have to remove the alcohol from it to be a net positive.

Comment But it's not really Apple-like (Score 2) 48

It's not really Apple-like. They take the worst part of the Apple naming - the variants of their Phones which everyone agrees is confusing, adding the even sillier "Premium", applying them to laptops instead, but then using "Dell" as the base name!

Apple's laptops are "Macbook Air" and "Macbook Pro". In the past they had plain "Macbook" too.

What Dell is doing is like Apple coming out with laptops named "Apple", "Apple Pro", "Apple Premium", "Apple Pro Max".

Comment eSIM was never about customers (Score 1, Insightful) 95

eSIM was never about customers, it was all about control. We obviously don't gain anything as consumers, we only lose. It's the same as the trend for everything to be remotely controlled and revocable. Be it the phone service you pay for, the movie or song or game you buy, even your car at times...

Comment I don't know how to feel about this. (Score 1) 6

I don't know how to feel about this. I use an Android myself, but the iPhone is certainly not a monopoly. So if we impose non-monopolies to allow 3rd party sources to install software, does that mean that we should also force Nintendo or Sony to allow us to install homebrew games etc? I would think a company should be allowed to develop hardware that only runs their own software as a profit model (with some safeguards, like them not revoking rights to sold software etc), but if we agree that they shouldn't, surely this should apply to all companies? Nintendo/Sony are the direct examples...

Comment Sounds like there is more to this... (Score 2) 117

It sounds like there is more to this. Satellites don't respect political boundaries. Also, a simple "loss of signal" happens when you park your Porche in a garage - it doesn't even have to be a multi-storey underground one, I bet the satellite signal is blocked easier than that. And yet we've never heard of any issue with this outside Russia, so there's more to the story than Porche being stupid thinking that they should disable cars who lose satellite connection.

Comment I see no problem here... (Score 5, Informative) 30

These were mass registrations by bots that were not used, disabled years ago. I see none of the privacy reasons, legitimate private email would not get into them any more than what already happens accidentally with people mistyping the intended recipient. This is a non issue, definitely not worth a post here. Even on reddit the top comment is release them, but as they are valuable ones (the bots got tons of "nice" ones), release them to paid users - which sounds fair to me...

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