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But in reality, most consumers outside of miners and Server level stuff don't really care all that much about power efficiency, within reason. It's not like most gamers or professionals/programmers are begging for more energy efficiency... they want more performance and more value.

So, I'm wondering, what is the real benefit of Big.Little, beyond energy savings? Is it the added parallelization... the ability to do more things in parallel, or at once? Is it the reduced costs?

So, I think the "efficiency" really does mean efficiency in 3 ways.

1.) Power efficiency

2.) Manufacturing/Price efficiency

3.) Performance efficiency

Mainly though, I feel that big.little is being pushed because Intel can't match AMD on cores, so the only way it really could was by making some smaller.

So, I guess I'm just a little confused as to what big.little provides, or would provide for a company like AMD. Is parallelization really that valuable? Are the little cores really efficient considering how much they cost to make and how much space they take up?

I just feel like if little cores were that great, you'd just be using all little cores, and get like 32(or however many would fit) onto a chip, instead of 8 big + 8 little. If someone can explain if I'm missing something.

I understand the concept that you can have a single small core to do menial tasks like run windows. But is that that much more efficient than having a big core run windows AND do other things?(after all, people used to do things and run windows all on 1 core and it worked fine...).

I just feel like if energy efficiency is the main benefit... what consumers really care that they're going to pay a premium for it? I can't imagine many. If someone could explain if parallelization is really that big of a benefit to justify small cores, I'd love to hear about it... or if someone has a good article, comment, or writeup.

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SSD Hierarchy Ranking

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 11:45 AM PDT

Tomshardware has pages on GPU and CPU Hierarchy ranking. Is there anything like this for SSDs (m2 nvme in particular)? :)

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This GPU was on fire, but is it still going to work?

Posted: 15 Jul 2021 08:44 AM PDT

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