Intel Unveils Meteor Lake Architecture: Intel 4 Heralds the Disaggregated Future of Mobile CPUs | Anandtech (www.anandtech.com)
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fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 2023 15:44 next collapse

I’m personally very interested in the “Low Power Island” and it’s efficiency cores for it’s efficiency cores.

S0 standby is pretty rough on high end high power laptops like my Thinkpad with it’s 11th gen i9. I sometimes have power drain higher in standby than just normally on. If Windows is smart it could turn off all cores but the E E-cores and maybe make modern standby not so much worse than S1-3 standby.

The Low Power Island also has DLVR finally, but sadly the rest of the CPU doesn’t.

Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee on 15 Dec 2023 19:07 collapse

Or maybe we could just maintain good old traditional sleep? Not like you want your laptop to be a phone with push notifications and alike

doczombie@lemmy.world on 15 Dec 2023 23:43 next collapse

Don’t you? Instant wake is hella useful, especially if you are using a laptop as a laptop and moving between meeting rooms etc, constantly bumping between sleep and wake.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 2023 00:04 collapse

S1 sleep was as fast to resume as S0 standby.

Instead I get 30+ seconds to wake from sleep, 1% battery drain per minute, and the random chance that it just overheats in my bag and crashes. At least on my Surface Pro and Intel U series laptops it’s tolerable, but I’d much rather S1 standby for 30 minutes, S3 standby for 4 hours, before finally hibernating. Instead I currently get buggy S0 for 15 minutes, and hopefully it makes it to complete hibernation after that.

doczombie@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 2023 00:36 next collapse

Yeah windows standby sucks. On platforms where the equivalent of s0 doesn’t suck, it’s awesome.

QuarterSwede@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 2023 03:19 collapse

Bingo. MacBook’s are always ready to wake with little battery loss. Windows just … can’t do that ever. If phones can be expected to behave this way, computers have zero excuses they can’t.

bruhduh@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 2023 10:53 next collapse

Oof, felt that, my thinkpad overheated in my backpack while i was dualbooting, it was that hot so my backpack almost combusted

Kethal@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 2023 18:16 collapse

Man, this is why my work laptop does that. It is an all around POS so I chalked this problem up to that. I didn’t know that MS deliberately broke sleep. With this knowledge I’ve learned how to go back to regular sleep.

SharkAttak@kbin.social on 16 Dec 2023 21:37 collapse

Exactly, with modern CPUs and ssd there shouldn't be the need to have PCs that sleep with an eye open.

[deleted] on 16 Dec 2023 13:52 next collapse

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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world on 16 Dec 2023 20:04 collapse

It does not have AVX512

[deleted] on 16 Dec 2023 23:32 collapse

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SharkAttak@kbin.social on 16 Dec 2023 21:57 collapse

This is because it's the first client processor to be made using chiplets instead of a monolithic design.

Wasn't AMD already using chiplets for their CPUs?

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world on 17 Dec 2023 10:27 next collapse

For years. 2017 if you argue the separate CCXs in Zen1 Threadripper to be chiplets.

2019 with Zen2 if you’re not counting that.

AMD is pretty ahead of everyone when it comes to packaging tech.

SharkAttak@kbin.social on 17 Dec 2023 18:36 collapse

Next thing they'll declare to be the first to use 3D packaging in their CPUs.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world on 18 Dec 2023 17:59 collapse

Amd’s chiplets are different from Intel’s.

AMD’s chipltets are discrete “modules” that are physically separate from each other.

Intel is trying to make an almost monolithic die, but using distinct chips sitting directly next to each other with (I believe) an almost direct link.

AMD’s chiplet design isn’t very good for low power low load uses (like laptops) while Intel’s approach should be much better for laptops. Sapphire rapids is closer to AMD’s chiplet design, but dear god do those CPUs use a lot of power.

SharkAttak@kbin.social on 20 Dec 2023 00:26 collapse

Honestly I see little difference, the parts of the cpu are divided differently and Intel's are closer and designed to have more modularity overall, but still declaring it to be the first made using chiplets is basically not true.
I'm not bieng an AMD fanboy here, I just don't like when company boast/hyping goes too far.

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world on 20 Dec 2023 04:52 collapse

Who’s saying it’s the first attempt at chiplets? It’s not even Intel’s first attempt, that would be sapphire rapids more recently, or those old awful pentium extreme dual “cores” that were almost literally two CPUs glued together.

SharkAttak@kbin.social on 21 Dec 2023 00:27 collapse

In the article, the bit I quoted in my top post.